Are people really Googling sexual imagery of children?

There are so many people applauding Google’s recent crackdown on child pornography. I think it’s a publicity stunt to bury the recent negative press about Google and that it was not a real problem to begin with.

When child pornography is uploaded to indexed sites, the FBI (or relevant authority) is quickly alerted and the IP addresses of the uploader and viewers are tracked. Even when people use VPN/proxies, their real IP addresses are usually stored with the company the provides the VPN/proxy. I think pretty much the only child pornography that exists online is uploaded by the government to entrap pedophiles.

Few people are dumb enough to actually go looking for child pornography online. Pretty much everyone has heard on the news about people who go looking for child porn on the internet and are quickly arrested. The people who are still dumb enough to download child porn would probably download the first collection they find, which would likely be the government entrapment files.