Is boardreader.com Safe?

The site serves no purpose to the user, but to add an extra step between: 1. the the browser... and 3. the forum the user is searching for. .... the missing step #2 is boardreader.com, which serves up ads and a meaningless index of whatever search terms the user put in. And that could be anything. So, you need to trust it's questionable coding, which is designed to please advertisers, and not not users (since you are just getting an extra click for your efforts). Will it know if you do not mean anything naughty when searching for a message board about little girls because you just had twins and want to reach out to other moms? Or will your elder children see something quite surprising? Guidelines: 1. If a site has no value of it's own.... it has no value 2. If a site/company/product resorts to any sort of trickery to gain users / if you have to be "fooled" into clicking/buying/etc. --that should be your call to Run. (I did not click on "potentially illegal", however, in my opinion, they are "stealing" people's time). //unrelated...if you do not know the legal history around this whole "stealing media" business -it is fascinating. Check it out..//

Learn what this website is before giving it a negative rating/comment. http://boardreader.com/info/about.htm BoardReader was developed to address the shortcomings of current search engine technology to accurately find and display information contained on the Web's forums and message boards. Founded in May 2000 by engineers and students from the University of Michigan, Boardreader uses proprietary software that allows users to search multiple message boards simultaneously, allowing users to share information in a truly global sense.

The Videos and Movies "linked" to this site can be classiffied as inappropriate for children - I don't mean child pornography - Just that the lists of movies and videos have ALL ratings from G (general) to M (Mature) or perhaps higher ratings, I didn't go through that many of those pages. Just a Heads Up that the Movies and Videos (but also some Forums) MAY not be appropriate for young viewers/readers