Monday, September 22, 2008

How the Google censorship in China looks

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Via Wikimedia

4 comments:

Croydonian said...
22 Sep 2008 08:55:00  

Try searching 'Tibet' on Baidu, the market leading Chnese language search engine.....

Unsworth said...
22 Sep 2008 10:42:00  

Nicely illustrated. Of course it's not going to change for many years yet.

Anonymous said...
22 Sep 2008 20:20:00  

This is hardly new, but I've just tried using .cn and .co.uk addresses for Google Image search from the UK.

If I search for 'tiananmen square', I seem to get about as many tanks from the Chinese Google as the British one:
http://images.google.cn/images?&q=tiananmen+square
http://images.google.co.uk/images?&q=tiananmen+square

On the other hand, if I search just for 'tiananmen', I only get one tank in the Chinese version:
http://images.google.cn/images?&q=tiananmen
http://images.google.co.uk/images?&q=tiananmen

I suppose I could try it when I'm next in an Internet cafe in China, but I anticipate that I might pretty quickly find a polite but authoritative young man in a well-ironed green uniform shirt looking over my shoulder.

Incidentally, there's something strangely self-referential about the image on the far right column, second row down.

Anonymous said...
22 Sep 2008 23:44:00  

this is what zanu-labour party would love to do to the British National Party website www.bnp.org.uk


 

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