Can a popup appear in the Search Engine toolbar as a suggestion?

My friend’s son said he wasn’t looking at a porn site. When she got on the internet, she clicked in the search bar at the top and typed "www.k" and a suggested porn site came up. Does that mean he was on there or can a pop-up really "just appear" as a suggestion? I told her that couldn’t happen. That a pop-up could not do that. Am I right?

Well, Google does that.
Try typing www.k in google search box.
Depending on which country you are suggestions may or may not include a porn site, and the chap may not have searched for it knowingly.

By the way, checking the search "History" would be a better idea. Plus there are Free "Keyloggers" available for download – which will record every letter the kid types on his keyboard. Ask her to install that in the computer and also enable a Parental Control.

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One Response to “Can a popup appear in the Search Engine toolbar as a suggestion?”

nene_soberman on August 26th, 2011 at 4:52 pm

Well, Google does that.
Try typing http://www.k in google search box.
Depending on which country you are suggestions may or may not include a porn site, and the chap may not have searched for it knowingly.

By the way, checking the search "History" would be a better idea. Plus there are Free "Keyloggers" available for download – which will record every letter the kid types on his keyboard. Ask her to install that in the computer and also enable a Parental Control.
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