Cincinnati, Ohio - ( Website Hosting Directory ) - January 26, 2006 - Recent research revels that 87 percent of children are regularly on the Internet, and are using search engines as a primary research tool. However, one in four children accidentally encounter pornography on the web, with search engines as leading gateways.

The average age of a child being exposed to pornography for the first time on the web is 11. Studies have also found that only six percent of the web is even relevant for schoolwork.

A new search engine just launched by Thinkronize, Inc. entitled netTrekker home addresses these issues. According to the company, it brings the full promise of the Internet home to families seeking peace of mind through safe, pornography-free text and image search, and to time-challenged students needing resources to excel in an increasingly competitive academic environment.

netTrekker home is based on an award-winning in-school version used by 7 million students at 11,000 schools nationwide. A monthly subscription costs $9.95 for unlimited access, and the company also offers a 14-day free trial of the service.

The company suugests that the best way to test netTrekker home's effectiveness is to pit it against traditional search engines. For instance, a Google search for the word "synonym" for a homework report delivers something shocking: pornography sites, often among page one results. The same search on netTrekker home returns only clearly-organized, pornography-free links, relevant for research and sorted by reading level. Each result is tagged with the evaluator's report, rating it on multiple measures, and providing full accountability to parents.

According to Dr. Donald Jacobs, Founder of the Center for Applied Technologies in Education at the University at Buffalo, ''Kids don't have to work to find pornography on the web. It finds them, in ways that parents may find shocking, like traditional search for even the most innocent material. netTrekker home takes the danger, uncertainty and irrelevance out of Internet search for homework. And, importantly, netTrekker home helps students and parents get quick access to important information and resources that are directly related to homework.''

According to Thinkronize, Inc., netTrekker home is about the right results, not commerce. A Google search on "Ethan Allen" (with some 2.1 million "hits" to wade through) would suggest there was a store before there was a man. The same search on netTrekker home for a middle school student returns 15 clearly sorted, information-rich, on-target results, none directly linking to the furniture store chain.

Christine Willig, President of Thinkronize stated, ''netTrekker home works better than traditional search for schoolwork for two reasons: people and technology. No matter how powerful technology becomes, there is no substitute for people when it comes to judging relevance of content, particularly when it's information for our children. Our network of hundreds of educators, all specialists in specific subject areas, continually searches the Internet for sites that are pornography-free and truly helpful for schoolwork. Our technology takes it from there, further scrubbing the Internet for unsafe sites, removing 'dead links' and delivering only information that matters to students.''

To learn more about netTrekker home, please visit: www.nettrekker.com .

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