# Any way to do a "!safe" search on Google Image? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-do-a-safe-search-on-google-image/576114 "2011-03-27T02:50:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-do-a-safe-search-on-google-image/576114/1 "2011-03-27T02:50:01Z")
IOW, a search that returns _only_ what “Safe Search” would filter out? For example if I’m searching for “tits”, I do not want page after page returned about the birds in the family Paridae. Gimme my porn dammit! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-do-a-safe-search-on-google-image/576114/2 "2011-03-27T03:16:38Z")
I’ve seen third-party sites that do this (by doing two Google searches, and subtracting the one from the other), but none of them seem to work any more, presumably due to not keeping up with changes in Google. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-do-a-safe-search-on-google-image/576114/3 "2011-03-27T04:05:23Z")
I’m sure if you turn off safe search you’ll do pretty well for yourself. Hell, I sometimes play a game where we randomly put in a female’s name and see how long until we get to pr0n. It never takes long. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-do-a-safe-search-on-google-image/576114/4 "2011-03-27T08:12:02Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > I’m sure if you turn off safe search you’ll do pretty well for yourself. Hell, I sometimes play a game where we randomly put in a female’s name and see how long until we get to pr0n. > > It never takes long. Unfortunately, it’s not always “pr0n” of that person, despite choosing a famous female. ---
**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-do-a-safe-search-on-google-image/576114/5 "2011-03-27T16:29:30Z")
The one I’ve seen before is [http://www.monzy.org/unsafesearch/images/](http://www.monzy.org/unsafesearch/images/) (Should be ok with the 2 click rule, the home page doesn’t display anything nsfw) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-do-a-safe-search-on-google-image/576114/6 "2011-03-27T16:33:10Z")
Huh, that’s the one I was thinking of, too. It didn’t work yesterday when I tried it. I guess I should have posted the link anyway. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-do-a-safe-search-on-google-image/576114/7 "2011-03-27T17:45:00Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > IOW, a search that returns _only_ what “Safe Search” would filter out? For example if I’m searching for “tits”, I do not want page after page returned about the birds in the family Paridae. Gimme my porn dammit! 😛 I must be missing something ~ tits -paridae ~ does not have any ornithology birds on page one ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-do-a-safe-search-on-google-image/576114/8 "2011-03-27T19:39:55Z")
> [@janeslogin](#): > > I must be missing something ~ tits -paridae ~ does not have any ornithology birds on page one I just picked that as a hypothetical example; and in fact a Googol Image Search for tits with Safe Search off is not particularly ornithological. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-do-a-safe-search-on-google-image/576114/9 "2011-03-27T20:43:14Z")
You don’t get many birds with Moderate, either. And with strict Safe Search, it filters the word out entirely, and doesn’t give you anything. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-do-a-safe-search-on-google-image/576114/10 "2011-03-27T22:35:26Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > I’m sure if you turn off safe search you’ll do pretty well for yourself. Hell, I sometimes play a game where we randomly put in a female’s name and see how long until we get to pr0n. > > It never takes long. I sometimes play a game where I put in any word in the dictionary and see how long it takes to get to the dirty. ‘Spoon,’ ‘garden,’ ‘happy’… literally anything will get you there if you go past two pages.