Search Engines

The internet offers its users an unmanageable amount of information. Search engines help the users to orientate themselves in the diversity of the internet. They make specific searching of particular items much easier and therefore, they are a significant means of research. The possibilities of searching are manifold; apart from ordinary full-text search more and more providers offer image, news, product, group or video searches.

Along with the increasing popularity of search engines and their continuous development, their significance to youth protection in media has increased as well. Therefore, many famous search engine providers met under the umbrella of the FSM and founded the Self-Monitoring of Search Engine Providers in February 2005.

These pages contain background information of the search engine providers’ self-monitoring and the code of conduct, which is the basis to their union.