COIMBATORE: The first additional district munsif court of Coimbatore has issued notices to internet major Google Inc, its local subsidiary Google India Pvt Ltd, its video wing YouTube and the central government’s Indian Computer Emergency Response Team on a complaint alleging the search engines provide links to pornographic and sexually explicit websites even while searching for neutral details.In his complaint, city-based software engineer C Ashok Kumar narrated a recent incident in which he searched for “Hotmail” using the Google search engine.“As soon as I typed HOT, the search engine started showing links to abusive contents and pornographic videos,” he said. “Even at my home, several children are using the internet for completing home work and online-competitive tests. They will be misguided by the search suggestions leading to abusive contents.”Those who searched for the medical or gender meaning of “sex” would land in highly abusive sites that could spoil children, he said.Notices will be served to the internet giant soon and the case will be considered by the court again on June 7.According to Kumar’s advocate, M Sundara Kadeswaran, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team under the department of information technology was made a party to the defendants since it was the national agency for cyber emergency incidents. “As the single authority for issuing instructions in the context of blocking websites, it has to advise the Department of Telecom to block websites which propagate hate, slander, defamation etc apart from gambling, racism, violence, terrorism and pornography,” he said. “But it remains mute in the face of violations by Google.”He said countries such as China had already removed obscene contents from Google search engines. “It is practical and China is the best example,” he said. “Search engines must adhere to local values and laws.”Kumar said online video sharing through YouTube had a devastating effect on the younger generation. Anybody could upload any content from anywhere in it, he said.“Our demand is the filtering of available content by search engines before uploading them,” Kumar said. “Search engines must be responsible and they must protect the younger generation from all harms of being exposed to pornography. The government agency has the obligation to force the search engines from not promoting pornography. We have demanded blocking of the search engines if they do not meet the directive. We have also sought permanent injunction against them from publishing abusive and illegal contents.”