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Remove Google Doodle games, Easter eggs, adverts, translation, lyrics, AI summaries and video search results

Updated

This article explains how to prevent different features from appearing when using Google.

  Important

These Content Modifications are supported for devices filtered using Cloud Filter Extension, but not Smoothwall Browser or Android Filter App.

Apply Content Modification to Google

Step 1: Set up HTTPS Inspection

If you are using the On-Premise Appliance for Content Modification, you must have a HTTPS Inspection Policy to Decrypt and Inspect the Everything category. If this is not possible, Decrypt and Inspect the Search Engines category.

Step 2: Create a Content Modification policy

Create a content modification policy for these items:

  1. For On-Premise Appliance, select Google or Search Engines in the What field.
  2. Select one or more of these Content Modifications:
    • Google - Remove adverts
    • Google - Block Doodle games
    • Google & Bing - Remove translation from search results
    • Google - Remove YouTube videos from search results

        Note

      Inline links in the Videos tab are not removed when using the Cloud Filter Extension.

    • Google - Remove lyrics from search results
    • Google - Web search (basic mode) removes everything from the search results page that's not a search result, including YouTube videos, advertisements, translations, AI summaries and more.

        Tip

      You can also use Google - Remove AI Overview to remove AI summaries if you apply filtering using On-Premise Appliance.

Block Easter Eggs

Content Modification can’t block Google’s Easter Eggs. Instead, use Search term filtering to block keywords and phrases associated with Easter Eggs. For example:

  • askew
  • do a barrel roll
  • game of life
  • blink html
  • google in 1998