Google removes child sexual abuse search results, global roll out in the next six months

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. Google had previously added warnings to these searches prior to today's announcement, which had resulted in a 20 percent drop in activity, added UK Prime Minister David Cameron in a related interview with The Daily Mail. For now, the new changes are designed for English-speaking countries which includes both the UK and US, although Google says it will roll out its adjusted search across the world over the next six months, covering 158 more languages.

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Source: Daily Mail