GOOGLE VIEWS: Google Kids

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“The agencies are lagging and the companies are emboldened.” Google introduced YouTube Kids in February as a mobile app “built from the ground up with little ones in mind,” according to a blog post by the company. The app is geared for children of The number of kids online has more than doubled in the last ten years, and most of them are unprepared to deal with the virtual world of the Internet, highlights a recent Ofcom report. According to data gathered from thousands of in-home interviews, Ofcom Some parents are enraged at Google’s YouTube Kids because the platform is filled with ads that kids cannot tell apart from actual content. The campaign for Commercial Free-Childhood is taking a stand against YouTube and Coca-Cola. They claim these Today Google announced the launch of its 2014 Doodle 4 Google competition. It’s an annual art contest for kids in K-12 with big stakes: The winner’s Doodle will replace the standard Google logo on the company’s homepage for a day. “Doodle 4 Google Junk-food ads and other inappropriate content on the YouTube Kids App have drawn criticism and complaints from two child advocacy groups, which have called on the Federal Trade Commission to regulate Google. Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the But if Google wants to succeed, it can't just offer a sanitized, watered-down experience. Google Jr. has to be a better, hipper, more tween-centric service that kids can't get anywhere else. Teenagers and adolescents "are the most prolific generation in .

Google is buying the kids app-maker Launchpad Toys, the startup announced Wednesday. LaunchPad Toys makes a handful of popular mobile apps for children including an augmented reality app called TeleStory and an animation storytelling tool called Toontastic. Modern kids are precocious and sometimes more technologically advanced than their parents, so they’re familiar with web surfing and how to google things. Still, the idea of a search engine custom-made for children is not new, with products like KidRex or YouTube Kids is under fire again, this time from child advocacy groups that claim Google engages in "unfair and deceptive practices toward children." The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) and Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) this week filed My 12-year-old is part of the “Google it” generation when she has to research reports. Some of the stuff she finds (and thinks is true) is just goofy. Should we invest in an encyclopedia for her? What kinds of reference materials should parents provide .