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Google and Microsoft To Block Child-Abuse Search Terms

Posted by samzenpus on from the thinking-of-the-children dept.

mrspoonsi writes "Leading search engine companies Google and Microsoft have agreed measures to make it harder to find child abuse images online. As many as 100,000 search terms will now return no results that find illegal material, and will trigger warnings that child abuse imagery is illegal. The Google chairman said he hired a 200-strong team to work out a solution over the last three months. 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."

4 of 308 comments (clear)

  1. Well, it's something. by AltGrendel · · Score: 1, Funny

    I imagine that this will work until the child abusers find a way around it.

    --
    The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination

    - Douglas Adams

  2. Well, by Zanadou · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess children will have to search for abuse some other way, then.

  3. Re:Friendly request to non-Brits by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Really, how many users are that dumb?

    The answer to that question should be clear* to anyone who uses the word "users" and has over one month or professional experience.

    *: In this context, the word "clear" is to be interpreted as "painfully obvious. Crystalline as one of the axioms on which the universe stands; bright as the one truth all other truths are to be measured against.".

  4. Re:Friendly request to non-Brits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Catholic Church sighs with relief.