Google image searching on China

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From: Dave Shannon (dshannon@wilytech.com)
Date: Mon Jan 30 2006 - 15:01:35 PST 

Subject: Google image searching on China
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:01:35 -0800
Message-ID: <DD82DE4DDD758747A5C37D139B712A630265303D@MAIL1.wilytech.com>
From: "Dave Shannon" <dshannon@wilytech.com>

I found this on SearchEngineWatch:

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060130-080248

"A Picture Says 1000 Words About Google's Censorship In China

Plenty are writing and writing about Google's agreement to censor
results for China. But pictures perhaps better illustrate the
differences that Google now endorses.

Google Images Censors Too in China from Google Blogoscoped shows you how
a search for [tiananmen square] on Google Images China provides happy
scenes while over at uncensored Google Images, there are tanks rolling
in."

You'll see the side by side images on the website. The entry also
mentions that you can get uncensored image results by misspelling
"Tiananmen" as "Tianamen".

There is also a link on the page to another article
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060127-150726 that discusses
somewhat how the filtering is taking place.

Dave

Dave Shannon
Program Manager
Wily Technology
415 562-2004

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