Google block on child porn: At last! Internet giant axes links to vile sex-abuse websites in stunning victory for Mail campaign

Internet search results linked to child abuse are to be blocked across the world in a stunning U-turn by Google.
The world's biggest media firm has agreed to introduce changes which will prevent depraved images and videos from appearing for more than 100,000 different searches.
The company's chairman Eric Schmidt, writing in today's Daily Mail ahead of a Downing Street summit on internet pornography, says: 'We've listened.

At last! Google has agreed to introduce changes which will prevent depraved images and videos from appearing for more than 100,000 different searches

'We've fine-tuned 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-speaking countries, will be expanded to cover the rest of the world and 158 other languages in the next six months.
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.
Microsoft, which operates search engines Bing and powers Yahoo, will confirm at the Downing Street talks that it is introducing similar restrictions. The dramatic developments follow the Daily Mail's concerted fight to force the industry to clean up the internet with its Block Online Porn campaign.
David Cameron, in an interview with this newspaper, said the move represented 'a really significant step forward' but was not enough – and threatened legislation if the firms refuse to do more.
'We learnt from cases like the murder of Tia Sharp and April Jones that people will often start accessing extreme material via a simple search in one of the mainstream search engines,' the Prime Minister said.

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt (left) said Google has developed breakthrough technology that will allow illegal videos to be 'tagged'. Prime Minister David Cameron (right) said the move represented 'a really significant step forward'

U-turn: Internet search results linked to child abuse are to be blocked across the world by Google

Mr Cameron said a list of terms had been drawn up by child protection experts which they judged were 'unambiguous'.
'If you used these you were looking for child abuse images online,' he added. 'I challenged the search companies to block these terms, to make sure that no illegal content or pathways to illegal content were returned.