Imagine searching for Britney Spears on the Internet and instead of seeing TMZ’s latest story on her crumbling career, you’d glimpse of a fresh-as-daisies teenager bopping around on the Mickey Mouse Club. And that’s all you’d see. Today marks the launch of Kidzui (pronounced Kid-zoo-ee), a browser and online service that brings kids ages 3 to 12 an age-appropriate, edited version of the Web—that means no bald Britney, no pregnant Jamie Lynn Spears and no Eliot Spitzer (well, at least no Spitzer Swallows). Kidzui isn’t another parental control, high-tech filter or imaginary world; it’s actually a database of  Websites and online videos that have been looked at, edited and categorized by an extensive team of reviewers—namely teachers and parents—who have culled the Internet for kid-okay content for the past three years.

As Time Out Kids‘ "technology" editor, I previewed this new computer program last week–and I have to say I was fairly impressed. True, kids won’t be able to sate all their curiosities (i.e. search for sex and you won’t find a definition) when they’re on Kidzui, but they will be able to spend as long as they  like glued to the computer screen–and not wind up in trouble. Curious parents can also monitor their kids’ actions: The service sends parents a weekly newsletter summarizing everything their brood searched for and learned about on the Net.

The program also caters its displays to a child’s age: that means three-year-olds don’t have to maneuver through pages of text that they can’t read. Instead they can watch videos and listen to voice-overs explaining the topics that interest them. Right now the browser contains 500,000 approved Sites–but that number should grow rapidly as more kids join.

My advice: sign up now while the price is low ($4.95 per month or $49.95 per year). A month from now, that price will most likely just about double.

Do you think services like Kidzui are helpful, or do kids need to learn to navigate Web without training wheels? Talk back below!