I think there's a good reason for that. Some times when you do image searches you find pictures with nudity; even if you do a search with words like "sprite"...

I mean, come on, they're not like, some inferior forms of life, it's really no different than them trying to tell certain races not to use google. Yes, there is risk involved that perhaps the kids might stumble upon porn, but really, google is by far the best search engine for class projects and such, most other search engines just plain suck.

Oh, and why shouldn't they be able to google their own name? There may be sites that unbeknownst to them have pictures or something of them, of even information that could cast a poor image on them, they have every right to make sure nothing like that is happening and if they do find something like that, should be able to, (with parental aid of course) sue the crap out of whoever it is that is posting things about them--we all have the right to protect our good names.

Thats a april fools.

that underage kids are gonna do it anyways. They just don´t wanna get their @ss sued by silly americans.

Makes sense that they would protect themselves. If U18s are looking up things that their parents would prefer they didn't they can't go after Google. I'm sure they have no intention of actually enforcing it.

That leaves out half of n4g.com

Google has is the most popular search engine! Half of the people online are kids! If they ban kids, there ratings would go way down and Yahoo! or Microsoft's will go way up.