Two of the major arch rivals in the technology world, Google and Microsoft has joined together to fight for a good cause, finally. The surprising collaboration has been made not for making a new smartphone or some kind of futuristic gadget, it’s to protect innocent children from merciless paedophiles and online child abusers.
“Google and Microsoft have been working with law enforcement for years to stop paedophiles sharing illegal pictures on the web,” Google’s Eric Schmidt wrote on a Daily Mail article. Now, the two companies have developed new “state-of-the-art technology” to clean up search results and remove links to child sexual abuse material. “While no algorithm is perfect – and Google cannot prevent paedophiles adding new images to the web – these changes have cleaned up the results for over 100,000 queries that might be related to the sexual abuse of kids.”
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In the mean time, Microsoft has also improved search filtering on Bing, and is said to be working on a new technology that helps to detect duplicates of illegal images when they appear online. Same kind of technology is being tested by Google on YouTube to detect videos with child abuse content.
This news comes shortly after the recent online mission launched with help from the 10-year-old CGI Filipino girl ‘Sweetie’, which helped the authorities catch over 1000 paedophiles in chat rooms. The UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron, who revealed new strategies to prevent online porn, highly respects Google’s progress in preventing online child abuse and has also adored Microsoft’s involvement in the process.
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