# How do I turn Safe Search off on Google?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-safe-search-off-on-google/643790>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 12, 2012, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-safe-search-off-on-google/643790 "2012-12-12T03:22:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c67d28/32.png) [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-safe-search-off-on-google/643790/61 "2013-01-19T20:51:35Z")

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Oddly, this phenomenon does _not_ occur in older browsers, or at least in one older browser I still use. A Google image search for “lesbian daisy chain” will turn up radically different results in Opera 9.64 than it will in a modern browser.

If you search for “lesbian daisy chain **porn** ”, the sexy stuff comes back on the newer browsers. The key is make your search explicit, no pun intended probably.

If Google stops serving up pron even when you ask for it specifically, that’s when it’s time for tar and feathers IMO…

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**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:** [January 19, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-safe-search-off-on-google/643790/62 "2013-01-19T21:51:12Z")

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I go to [Google.co.uk](http://Google.co.uk), which still uses the old system.

BTW: the results for lesbian daisy chain are just too damn silly to be titillating.

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-safe-search-off-on-google/643790/63 "2013-01-28T11:55:30Z")

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> [@Lumpy](#):
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> I go to [Google.co.uk](http://Google.co.uk), which still uses the old system.

Not any more apparently. They’ve made “Safe” Search mandatory everywhere. I’m mostly using Bing now. At least it isn’t going to filter out images of Venus because that’s the name of some stripper somewhere.

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