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Masters of Tech World Google and Microsoft have reportedly agreed measures in a bid to stop yielding results related to child abuse on their respective search sites to introduce changes which will prevent depraved images and videos from appearing for more than 100,000 different searches related with porn and other child abuses.
Internet search results linked to child abuse are to be blocked across the world by Google
At last! Google has agreed to introduce changes which will prevent depraved images and videos from appearing for more than 100,000 different searches
Google Search to prevent links to child sexual abuse material from appearing in our results.
The restrictions, which have been designed to apply in English countries, that will be expanded to cover the rest of the world and 158 other languages in the next six months.
According to the BBC, the UK Prime Minister David Cameron had asked the two companies, who together handle 95 percent of the online search, to take serious action against people getting access to illegal images.
However, Cameron has warned that if the measures aren’t appropriately delivered, he would bring forward new legislation.
Mr Schmidt also reveals that Google has developed breakthrough technology that will allow illegal videos to be 'tagged' so that all duplicate copies can be removed across the internet.
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"We (T-Mobile and Google) had been working for months and months with a small team in Building 44 in Mountain View, CA. We had seen about 9 different versions of the new "Homescreen" for and I still wasn't completely certain we had seen the last one. I remember Fridays being "Donut Day" at the cafe there, and the arcade where I would spend my lunch with a bunch of Android coders playing old school video games - the team was bursting with excitement over what they were building and bringing to the world," said Des Smith, a member of the original Android team, in a post on Google+.
Today, Android accounts for around 80 per cent of the global smartphone market. In other words, four out of five smartphone around the world run on Google's Android OS.
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was five years ago when Google had announced to the world its Android
OS and the first handset to run Android, T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream).The Android operating system, acquired by Google in 2005, has also been a runaway success, enabling third-party handset makers like Samsung to overtake Apple Inc while also spawning a massive economy of third-party apps that are only loosely affiliated with Google.
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The challenge is that it is on a small screen, so it's hard to type. (AP)"Now search is becoming mobile - on phones and tablets. The challenge is that it is on a small screen, so it's hard to type. The opportunity is that it's got a really good microphone and a touch screen," he said.
"It can enable a new kind of interface. So we realised we want to build an interface that was much like the way you talk to some person and ask a question," Gomes said.
And while the Google search app can already respond to questions using voice-based software, Gomes told the BBC that the process is "going to get better and more intelligent".
The Tanzania-born, India-bred, US-educated vice-president of search is responsible for helping to answer queries in the shortest time possible on desktops, tablets and phones.
Search is Google's cash cow, bringing in a majority of its USD 50 billion revenues last year. It is also, said Gomes, "about having a continuous conversation with the user to find out what he wants".
Described by BBC as a "boy-like 45-year-old guru of search in Googleplex", the company headquarters in Mountain View, California, Gomes works out of an untidy cubicle with four other top engineers.
Gomes and his team work on "their fine-tooth comb search of the worldwide web to serve up the popular search engine".
He said: "When I joined Google in 1999, search was about basically finding the words that you search for in a document. Then we took this view that we were going to understand what you want and give you what you need."
Trawling through over 20 billion webpages a day, Gomes and his "army of search" - a substantial number of Google's 44,000 employees - use algorithms to make search intuitive, multimedia and super smart.
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Brin and Wojcicki, who married in 2007, have been living apart for several months, the couple's spokesperson said.
"They remain good friends and partners," the spokesperson added.
The technology blog AllThingsD on Wednesday was the first to report of the couple's living apart. Brin and Wojcicki, who have two children and who have a prenuptial agreement, are not yet legally separated, the report said.
Susan Wojcicki, Anne's sister, is Senior Vice President of Ads and Commerce for Google and is considered one of the Internet company's top executives.
The relationship between Google and the Wojcickis dates back to the company's earliest days: in 1998, the nascent search company set up shop in Susan Wojcicki's garage shortly after raising its first funding.
Google has invested roughly $10 million in 23andMe, the company that Anne Wojcicki co-founded in 2006 and which maps DNA and provides clients with information about their ancestry.
Source Indian Express
