Microsoft and Google have introduced new algorithms to their search engines that make it harder for anyone to search for child abuse material.
100,000 terms associated with child abuse will now be blocked by the search engines, BBC News reports. Also, a warning will display telling users that child abuse material is illegal.
The move comes after U.K.'s prime minister, David Cameron, called on Google and Microsoft to do more to prevent access to child abuse online in July. Any searches done for terms that are obviously associated with abuse should be banned he had said.
The new algorithms make it "much, much more difficult to find this content online," Google Communications Director Peter Barron said. "We're agreed that child sexual imagery is a case apart, it's illegal everywhere in the world, there's a consensus on that. It's absolutely right that we identify this stuff, we remove it and we report it to the authorities."
The changes will be first available in the U.K., then expanded to other countries during the next six months.
According to PC World, Google has designed technology that allows child abuse images and videos to be identified and destroyed.
In addition, the tech giants and the Internet Watch Foundation will partner up to help keep child abuse material from being shared through torrents.
The IWF said in a statement, "These measures will have a significant impact on our ability to tackle child abuse imagery online."
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