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Google Safe Search does not appear to work

October 13, 2012 • Administrator       
Synopsis

You have enabled Google SafeSearch in your policy but the user is still able to browse without safe search being enforced.

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Google has the option to use SSL for searches and if this is enabled it prevents the automatic safe search enforcement from working. Google SSL searches are used by a number of browser plug ins and also if you visit https://www.google.com in your web browser. Google provides a mechanism to disable SSL searches on your network, which is highly recommended for education environments.

To utilise the no SSL option for your network, configure the DNS entry for http://www.google.com to be a CNAME for nosslsearch.google.com.

You should also use the Custom URL module to block encrypted.google.com (encrypted.google.com:443 for CensorNet Professional).

For further information please see this external link on the Google Knowledge Base:

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=186669

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