Kids Are Searching for Surprising Things
April 1, 2011 by adminst
Filed under Domains & Websites, Featured Articles, Health & Wellness, Kids Activities, Kids Matters, Social Networking Sites, Surfing the Web, Website & Domain Issues
Kids search for surprising things online. A report from Symantec and its Norton OnlineFamily service, which allows parents to monitor and manage their kids’ online activities, including Internet searches. The Norton service tracks and reports the children’s Internet activities in real-time so parents can learn about online-content their kids should not be reading or seeing on the-web.
Here are the top-10 search-terms from kids over a recent 6-month period:
P.S. No, search-terms 4, 6, 28 and 89 are not April Fool’s jokes as you may be thinking!
1. YouTube
2. Google
3. Facebook
4. Sex
5. MySpace
6. Porn
7. Yahoo
8. Michael Jackson
9. Fred
10. eBay
Other search-terms making the top-100 search-terms include Wikipedia (14), Webkinz (16), games (17), Boobs (28), the Jonas Brothers (47), Playboy (89), iTunes (89b) and and swine flu (93). Who is Fred? He is a made-up character whose YouTube channel has become big with kids.
