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Old 27-01-2006, 08:59 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Google censors China

Google's properly launched it's Chinese search engine - and caused a storm of protest by censoring it's listings for the Chinese authorities:

http://www.platinax.co.uk/news/25-01...sors-in-china/

While Yahoo! and Microsoft also censor their services in China, neither of them has the motto "Don't do Evil"...

On that issue, here's a short Flash animation about the topic of search engines and their relationship with China:
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/search.html


Added: Apparently Google have now censored their censorship policy page:
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-01-27-n30.html
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Old 28-01-2006, 12:04 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Interesting comparison here:

Google image searches for "tiananmen":

Google.com
Google.cn

Notice any difference?
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