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major search engine companies, Google and Microsoft, have agreed on measures to make it more difficult to find child abuse images on the Internet.

For this, no less than 100,000 search terms now will not produce any results , and will result in warnings that child abuse images are illegal.

Restrictions apply

initially in English-speaking countries, but within six months will be extended to the rest of the world and 158 other languages ??.

The announcement comes just before the Internet Safety Summit to be held on Monday at the offices of British Prime Minister David Cameron in Downing Street, and who will go Google, Microsoft and other Internet companies.

July, Cameron asked the search engine to be more efficient to prevent users from accessing illegal images. According to the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, “no doubt that society never manage such depravity delete , but we must do everything in our power to protect children from evil” .

In its statement, said that in the last three months, Google has mobilized more than 200 employees in the development of new technologies to control the problem.

“We have programmed Google Search precisely to prevent our results bring up links with sexual abuse of children,” he said.

Microsoft, meanwhile, in a rare show of unity with Google, has said that its search engine Bing will also produce clean results.

The company said it s lways had a zero tolerance attitude to the contents of child pornography that had started much stronger processes to prevent access to such content from the summer.

Experts in child protection say most abuse images can not be found through web searches, but are hidden in peer-to-peer , reports BBC.

A report published in June, ‘Exploitation of Children in the UK and Online Protection Centre (CEOP)’, emphasized that the “hidden Internet” helped distributors of images of child abuse to avoid detection by using encrypted networks and other secure methods.

Google and Microsoft have agreed to work with the National Crime Agency in the UK and the Internet Watch Foundation to try to address the networks that host child abuse images.