Google has added a new feature designed to help parents and teachers ensure that younglings are not looking at inappropriate material when using its search pages. However, Sneak thinks that the tool may also find favour in those workplaces where shoulder surfing is the best defence against desk-bound rudity.

Google has long offered a safe search feature, and workers have long turned it off, but from now on anyone who walks past a desk and sees a number of big balls at the top of the screen will know that the person is 'safe searching', as opposed to the opposite. So yeah, they weren't the balls you were thinking about.

"While no filter is 100 per cent accurate, SafeSearch helps you avoid content you may prefer not to see or would rather your children did not stumble across. We think it works pretty well, but we're always looking for ways to improve the feature", said Pete Lidwell, product manager at the firm. Should you not see the balls, you will be in a position to throw all sorts of accusations at the person involved. A past-time that Sneak particularly enjoys.

Of course, it is not an enterprise-specific tool, and obviously it isn't going to solve any ongoing workplace tom-foolery, but it might help in its own little way.