A new lawsuit, which seems to forget all about the Yahoo and MSN search engines, brings the problem of child pornography back into the media's attention.

Jeffrey Toback, a member of the Democratic Party, has sued Google, alleging that the search engine receives money for links which refer to sites with illegal pornographic content.

"When it comes to the protection and well being of our nation's innocent children, [Google] refuses to spend a dime's worth of resources to block child pornography from reaching children or to filter out search terms such as 'child pornography' or 'kiddie porn' or the content to which such terms lead," Toback wrote in the complaint.

Google denied the accusations and said that numerous steps are being taken to prevent access to pornographic materials involving minors.

"When we find or are made aware of any child pornography, we remove it from our products, including our search engine. We also report it to the appropriate law enforcement officials and fully cooperate with the law enforcement community to combat child pornography," spokesman Steve Langdon said in an e-mail statement to The Associated Press.