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Google develops new technology to block more than 100,000 search queries about child porn

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 | 11:20 AM

Eric SchmidtGoogle boss Eric Schmidt revealed that the giant company has developed a new technology that can make it difficult to find pictures of the sexual abuse of children on the internet .

As written in the British Daily newspaper , Google's Executive Chairman said that more than 100,000 searches will no longer produce undesirable content.

This will come into force for the countries that use the English language and will be applied also to other countries including 158 other languages ​​in 6 months time .

The statement comes ahead of a meeting on Monday at the office of prime minister David Cameron in Downing Street , where Google and Microsoft will join other Internet companies .

On July , Cameron insisted that the search engines to go further in block Internet surfers accessing illegal images .

Schmidt wrote : " Although the public will not completely eliminate the vices like it , we must do everything in our power to protect children from harm . "

He said that in the last three months , Google has deployed more than 200 staff who worked on the development of new technologies to address those issues .

" Although there is no perfect algorithm and Google is not able to prevent pedophiles add new pictures to the web , this change has cleared the search results for more than 100,000 searches that may be associated with sexual abuse of children.

" We will soon roll out a change in more than 150 languages ​​, so the impact will be truly global . "

Schmidt said the warning from internet giant based in California now will show at the top of search results for more than 13,000 searches explaining that child sexual abuse is illegal and gives advice on where to get help .

He also said Google has developed technology that allows illegal video for ' tagged' so all duplicates may be deleted videos all over the web .


" We welcome the leadership taken by the British government , and hope that the technology developed by our industry will make a real difference in the fight against this terrible crime , " said Schmidt .

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