Google, Microsoft tighten online searches to combat child porn


LONDON: Web search giants Google and Microsoft said on Monday they will block online searches for child abuse images. 

The world's two largest search engine operators, in a rare display of unity, said as many as 100,000 search terms will now fail to produce results and trigger warnings that child abuse imagery is illegal. 

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