Search the internet with greater peace of mind. Norton Safe Search will let you know if a site is unsafe — before you click through the search results.
Norton Safe Search
See a website’s safety rating for your search results.γ
Avoid malware-infected sites on your search results.
Help safeguard your identity by avoiding phishing sites.
What is Norton Safe Search and how does it work?
Norton Safe Search is a search engine focused on online security. The browser extension helps protect users from unwittingly visiting phishing sites and other risky pages that may appear in search results. It uses browser-based risk detection to evaluate websites based on their individual safety and security parameters, then flags potentially unsafe sites right in your search results page.
Safe Search also uses Norton Safe Web technology, which analyses and rates websites on their potential security risks, such as phishing, malicious downloads, and unsafe links.
Norton Safe Search is included in Norton protection plans that are offered online or in retail stores. It's also available as a free browser extension on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
Why Choose Safe Search?
Get advanced security features that help protect you against online threats.
Real-Time safety ratings
See instant safety ratings for every website in your
search results before you click.
Global coverage
Comprehensive protection across millions of
websites worldwide.
Malware protection
Avoid malware-infected sites with our advanced
threat-detection system.
Phishing & identity detection
Protect your personal and financial information by
ensuring you only visit legitimate, verified websites
Trusted by Milions
2M+
Users Protected
3M+
URLs Blocked Daily
100M+
Scam Attacks Blocked Monthly
Ready to Search Safely?
Join millions of users who trust Norton Safe Search to protect them online. Start searching more safely today.
Install our entire set of browser extensions for even more comprehensive, secure browsing:
Norton Safe Search, Norton Home Page, Norton Safe Web.
Frequently asked questions
Norton Safe Search uses signature-based file scanning, intrusion detection engines, behavioural detection, and install/uninstall analysis to identify security risks such as phishing sites, malicious downloads, browser exploits, and links to unsafe external sites.
In addition, Norton Safe Search works with the Norton Safe Web extension on the backend. Together, they benefit from a network of millions of Norton Community Watch endpoints that automatically submit suspicious URLs in real-time. This allows Norton Safe Web to quickly identify newly infected sites, and Norton Safe Search to flag them in your search results.
Norton Safe Web also crawls the web and performs thorough analysis on millions of websites, providing greater accuracy to Norton Safe Search’s detection functionality.
Norton Safe Search is similar to other search engines, but with an added layer of security. It’s great at providing the search results you’re used to but makes it easier to differentiate safe internet websites from potentially malicious ones through the visible security ratings on the toolbar or in the search results.
Norton Safe Search is currently available in Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, and English.
When enabled, the Norton Safe Search’s Unsafe Site Filtering featureδ helps remove unsafe, non-paid search results. This feature does not provide a security rating for paid search results (sponsored links) or filter out potentially unsafe sponsored links from the search results. For sponsored links, the Norton toolbar allows you to view the associated security rating.γ
Norton Safe Search does not require users to provide any data outside of enrollment and billing processes. Norton Safe Search can be used as a free extension tool or website. If used as such, no user data is collected.
When you submit a search query through Norton Safe Search, it' directed to Ask.com, where your query is processed and the search results are provided. Norton Safe Search does not provide any information about you to our search partners.
As part of your use of Norton Safe Search, search partners may collect and/or ask you to provide certain information. Please see Ask.com's Search Partner's Privacy Policy for details on the type of information collected, how our search partners use and protect the collected information, and who they may share the information with.
You can learn more details here.
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System requirements
Browser Support:
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge version 79 and later (Chromium-based)
- Mozilla Firefox
γ Norton Safe Search does not provide a security rating for sponsored links nor does it filter out potentially unsafe sponsored links from the search results. Not available on all browsers.
δ Available using Norton Safe Search with Ask.com.
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