Internet is slowly but surely eating us in many ways. The most sensitive part of our society, childs, are more prone to it if proper restrictions are not imposed on some of the online content. In this regard Microsoft and Google has taken the lead by which they are making harder for users to find most of the illegal images online. When combined, both search giants makes the 95% of the total search queries of the world.
More than 1,00,000 search queries regarding child pornography have been removed from Google and Bing's search results. When searched, they do not return any result and in turn display a warning message that informs users about the illegalness of the content they are visiting. Content may include illegal images and videos uploaded by various illegal sources over the vast internet horizons.
Also measures are being taken to closely monitor those sources which are uploading such illegal online images and videos. Google and Microsoft have developed such technologies that help them to track such images and videos which eventually lead them to the original sources of such illegal content.
According to Schmidt, these changes are currently applicable in UK and US only but soon they will be enforced globally to so that more number of illegal sources can be tracked and truncated. Moreover, queries in more than 150 different languages will be added to cover more global region.
Via Source | Original post from BBC News | Image from Bing.com
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