Google to block child sex abuse search results globally over the next six months
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Eric Schmidt himself took to the British press to announce that Google has made a big step in ridding its search results of links to underage sexual abuse — with some image detection assistance from Microsoft. The Google chairman said he hired a 200-strong team to work out a solution over the last three months and that their work has already fixed up to 100,000 potential queries. The UK Prime Minister David Cameron has welcomed the news as “significant progress.” He’s also praised Google’s previous set of measures, which displayed a warning to people attempting to search for illegal material and caused a 20 percent drop in illicit activity. For now, Google’s newest improvements are limited to English-speaking countries, including the UK and US, although the search company says it’ll roll out its adjusted search globally over the next six months, covering 158 more languages.
Filed under: Internet, Microsoft, Google
Via: AllThingsD
Source: Daily Mail
