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So, Google has removed the option to turn off safe search, if you are using the .com website.  Article here.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
Quote:"We use algorithms to select the most relevant results for a given query. If you're looking for adult content, you can find it without having to change the default setting - you just may need to be more explicit in your query if your search terms are potentially ambiguous.

Q: What if you want anything that's there for a particular set of terms, whether it's adult or not?

A: Screw you, kemo sabe.

-Morgan.
Believe it or not, there are still alternatives to Google... Here's one: http://images.search.yahoo.com/
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

khagler

I don't normally use Google for searching, so I went and had a look. I supposed you could say that the original claim is technically correct, in that "safe search" was off by default and I had an option to turn it on. I suppose you could call that "removing the option to turn off safe search" if you stretch it enough.
Actually, it was usually on by default. Odds are it was turned off at some point, and that was remembered by your comp.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.