San Francisco, California-based search engine leader LookSmart (www.looksmart.com), which provides consumers with relevant search results through a distribution network that includes Lycos, InfoSpace, Excite, MetaCrawler, Webcrawler and many more, announced on September 22 the release of Net Nanny 5.1, an updated version of its Internet filtering software and the first version to include family-safe Web search. Net Nanny 5.1 has a retail price of $39.95 for new buyers of Net Nanny and is a free upgrade for all Net Nanny 5.0 users, available at www.netnanny.com.
Net Nanny, which is built on a LookSmart-powered search index, is being used by parents, schools, libraries and other institutions to filter pornographic and other inappropriate content from the Web. Integrating a family-safe search engine into the Net Nanny product continues Net Nanny's track record of raising the bar in offering tools to protect children, being the first company to introduce this critical feature to Internet filtering software. Over 70 million pornographic web pages have been filtered out to create a more family-safe environment.
David Kopp, vice-president and general manager of Net Nanny, said that children are using incredibly powerful search engines to find the best and the worst of the Web, that with Net Nanny 5.1 and Net Nanny's family-safe search, parents no longer have to choose between a powerful Internet tool like Web search and protecting their children from adult sites, and that LookSmart's Net Nanny search delivers relevant, deep search results without the porn.
