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Search engines Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have enabled a new system to block information on sex determination online in India. A system called auto block will stop any information including ads on sex determination tests.

In July, the Supreme Court of India found that the major search engines like, Google, Bing, Yahoo had violated national law by showing information about sex determination. 

In July, the Supreme Court said: "Can these search engines continue to violate the law? Is there nothing that can be done to stop them? Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, can't continue doing illegal activity in the name of being an intermediary."

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have now informed the court that they have identified 22 key words and phrases, including "sex determination", that will show up no information when searched online.

Prenatal sex determination was made illegal in India in 1994 in an attempt to prevent couples from aborting female babies. However, the practice has continued despite the ban and current statistics suggest that roughly 7,000 female fetuses are aborted in India every day.

 

According to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the sex ratio in India in 1991 was 947 girls to 1,000 boys. This count had dropped to 927 girls to 1,000 boys by 2001. These incidents indicating that female foeticide was still taking place despite the nationwide ban on sex determination.