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. The UK Prime Minister David Cameron
has welcomed the news as "significant progress." He's also praised
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. For now, Google's newest improvements are limited
to English-speaking countries, including the UK and US, although the
search company says it'll roll out its adjusted search globally over the
next six months, covering 158 more languages.
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