Saturday, February 18, 2006
Google China allows a little subversiveness
My curiosity stirred by the controversy over the willingness of search engine provider Google to filter results on its Chinese site to satisfy Beijing's repressive interests, I ran a search for "tiananmen massacre" on Google's main, French, Japanese, and Russian sites as well as its Chinese one. The results:
| Site | Hits |
|---|---|
| Google.com | 90,600 |
| Google France | 90,800 |
| Google Japan | 90,800 |
| Google Russia | 90,700 |
| Google China | 272 |
I was expecting 0 in the last row. I was wrong, so I guess freedom rings in China after all!
