Following a stringent warning from the Chinese government, engineers from Internet giant Google have started to implement an automated system that will remove pornographic search results in China.
The move stemmed from China’s order saying that Google’s filter for pornographic materials was too weak, which led to the temporary disabling of the site’s suggest option on Google.cn.
During a meeting in Taipei, Google Vice President for Search and User Experience Marissa Mayer said that Google deferred the site’s suggest feature to give way for the site’s “overhauling” to prevent further infiltration of pornographic materials during searches.
“We’ve done several major reengineering efforts to remove these pornographic sites in our search engines. This move is in accordance with China and Google’s contract, allowing no pornographic materials in our searches,” Mayer said in a statement.
Mayer also said that Google is now redesigning the home page of Google.cn that will eventually led to the removal of the radio buttons, which offers its users options on language and locale.
Meanwhile, the official said that the layout of the home page will remain the same.
Last week, China gave a firm order on Google to immediately suspend its Web search service following reports that people still managed to engaged in sexually explicit websites by just typing “slangs” in their search box.
An online user, who requested anonymity, said that Google.cn’s security feature has made it impossible for Chinese users to view search results with popular keywords such as porn, sex, and xxx.
But he claimed that less common words or slangs usually pass through the security feature of the website.
“BitTorrent downloading sites can also be seen through search results,” the source said.
But despite major reengineering to the Google.cn homepage, Google.com, the company’s main search page in English continues to show sexually explicit materials in its searches.