Google is revamping some of its most popular and successful
products to be suitable for a younger generation.
The company is currently working on adapting products so that
they would be more safer and more enjoyable for under 12s. The
likes of Chrome and YouTube will be reexamined to see what can be
done to make them more child-friendly.
The news was revealed by Google's vice president of engineering
Pavni Diwanji in an interview with USA Today. The idea is to look at technologies they are
already using at home and at school and make them
There will surely be no question of dumbing down the products.
Diwanji herself wrote in a Google blog post
earlier this week: "As the mom of two girls, I know that technology
is a pathway for their future success. Still, even as coding
becomes more important, less than 1 percent of high school girls
say they're interested in pursuing computer sciences in college.
But I'm also an engineer, so I've seen firsthand how exciting CS
can be."
As someone who claims that she "fell in love with code early",
it would be very strange if she, and Google, were to lock down its
products and discourage creativity and exploration. Indeed the post
itself was to promote a Google Education Project in the US called
Made with Code, which encourages young girls to animate the state
and territory trees in the President's Park.
Ideas will be tested out on the kids of actual Google staffers
at a specially adapted centre called the Kids Studio at the
company's headquarters, which brings a whole new meaning to the
phrase "Google Generation".
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Google to create child-friendly versions of Chrome and YouTube
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