Google Wifi Site Blocking

Google WiFi, Google’s popular mesh WiFi router system, now comes with a Site Blocking feature to protect kids from inappropriate websites.

11:30 20 October 2017

Google WiFi has been updated to include Site Blocking, a tool that gives you more control over the types of sites your kids can visit. The new feature uses Google’s existing SafeSearch Technology, which was created in 2009 to filter content from your Google search results.

 

In a blog post posted on 16 October, Google said: "Because SafeSearch is constantly crawling the web for new sites, the list of explicit sites blocked by Wi-Fi’s family controls will automatically be updated in real time,"

 

The new Google WiFi feature allows parents to turn on the SafeSearch for certain devices across their network. This will automatically block sites with adult content.