Google, Microsoft join hands for crackdown on child porn searches

London, Nov 19: The search engine giants

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on Monday pledged for a crackdown on 100, 000 online searches to combat child

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According to reports, Google Inc has planned to block serch results related to child abuse.

Both internet giants, Google and Microsoft, in a rare display of unity, will join hands to introduce new algorithms that will prevent searches for child abuse imagery delivering results.

Day before the "Internet safety summit" in London, Google chief Eric Schmidt wrote in a daily, "we will soon roll out these changes in more than 150 languages (including Indian languages) so the impact will be truly global."

"We've listened, and in the last three months put more than 200 people to work developing new, state-of-the-art technology to tackle the problem", Schmidt wrote.

Schmidt said that the tech giant (Google) had developed new technology that "makes it harder to find child sexual abuse images on the web (including on YouTube videos)."

"Paedophiles are increasingly filming their crimes. So our engineers at YouTube have created a new technology to identify these videos", he further said.

Google has developed a technology that makes it harder to find child porn images

The alerts also make clear that child sexual abuse is illegal and give advice on where to get help.

In July this year, British Prime Minister David Cameron declared war on online pornography, calling for a safer internet for children.

Cameron had warned that access to online porn was "corroding childhood", and urged internet companies to act to block access to child abuse images.

Cameron had also unveiled a series of measures to reduce access to pornography with a particular focus on images of child sexual abuse including "Possession of extreme pornography, which includes scenes of simulated rape, is to be outlawed."

Some anti-child porn campaigners have argued the proposals did not go far enough and called for greater funding to wipe out sharing of child porn through peer-to-peer networks.

OneIndia News

(With agency inputs)