Google tackles child pornography

By Maggie Shiels
BBC News, San Francisco
Monday, 14 April 2008

Google engineers have adapted a software program to help track child sex predators and search for patterns in images of abuse on the web.

Google has created the technology for the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).

It was originally developed to block copyrighted videos on the company's YouTube division.
The program uses pattern recognition to enable analysts to sort and identify files containing child sex abuse. the rest