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    • paul g on Thu 12 Nov 2009
    • 11:36:55 AM UTC

    Turn off WOT in Google results.

    Hi,all.Sorry if this has been posted before but i could not find any posts about it..
    I have noticed after i Google something say cars..when the results page opens at the top of the page there is now an option to turn off WOT.it looks like this..
    WOT safe search [x] in grey writing. This dose not happen on my mums PC? We both use the latest FireFox..Can anybody tell me what this is please or if i have just missed something in a WOT update...

    Thanks for your time.......cheers.........p...............

    If You Dont Ask You Will Never Know..

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    • Sami on Thu 12 Nov 2009
    • 11:50:29 AM UTC

    Re: Safe search

    The links are search refinements and disabling them doesn't turn off ratings for Google search, it only stops the refinement links from appearing again.
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    • paul g on Thu 12 Nov 2009
    • 01:01:59 PM UTC

    Safe search.

    Thanks for your quick reply Sami..Thats good to know i thought it might be some sort of hack on WOT...

    Thanks for your time..........cheers.....p...........

    If You Dont Ask You Will Never Know..
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    • BobJam (not verified) on Fri 13 Nov 2009
    • 06:47:12 AM UTC

    Re-enabling?

    Just curious here . . . if "Safe Search" is disabled, how can you get it back? (IOW, how can you get those search refinement links to appear again?).
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    • Warxas on Fri 13 Nov 2009
    • 06:55:59 AM UTC

    According

    To Sami in the blog post;

    "Set the option "weboftrust.scripts.disable_refinements" back to "false" in about:config."
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    • BobJam (not verified) on Fri 13 Nov 2009
    • 07:55:51 AM UTC

    What about IE?

    I'm assuming you're referring to "about:config" in FF.
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    • BobJam (not verified) on Fri 13 Nov 2009
    • 08:29:34 AM UTC

    Advanced search

    I noticed that this "search refinements" thing only shows up in a simple search on Google.

    If you use a term on simple search (for example eicar), the search refinement links show up. But if you use the same term on the advanced search, it doesn't. I'm assuming that's because an advanced search is actually kind of a "search refinment" itself.