links for 2006-01-27

• Google: China decision painful but right | Tech News on ZDNet
  "Google co-founder Sergey Brin said his company's decision to self-censor its Chinese search system followed a change of heart over how best to foster the free flow of information."
  (tags: china google chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech search)
• » Jihad comes to Google Video | Rational rants | ZDNet.com
  "I'm not going to point to it, because I don't want to endorse its message in any way. However, it raises some interesting questions:"
  (tags: google censorship surveillance privacy terrorism video SafeDemocracy)
• Online NewsHour: Google Agrees to Censor its Chinese Version -- January 25, 2006
  I talk about Google censoring in China on PBS McNeil Lehrer
  (tags: google china censorship freespeech search)
• No booze or jokes for Googlers in China | CNET News.com
  "Google's new China search engine not only censors many Web sites that question the Chinese government, but it goes further than similar services from Microsoft and Yahoo by targeting teen pregnancy, homosexuality, dating, beer and jokes."
  (tags: china censorship google search freespeech chineseinternetresearch)
• RFA: Google Follows Chinese Rules
  Radio Free Asia compares search results on google.com and google.cn
  (tags: google search censorship freespeech china chineseinternetresearch)
• Representative Christopher H. Smith - (NJ04) - Smith Criticizes Google for Caving to China’s Demand for Internet Censorship
  "Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) criticized Google Inc. for caving to the demands of the Chinese government by agreeing to censor its own search results."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech google search)
• FT.com / World - US congressman takes Google to task on China
  "Google will be called to task in Washington next month following a controversial decision by the internet search engine to launch a China-based version of its website that will censor results to avoid angering the country’s Communist government."
  (tags: china google search censorship freespeech)
• Checking Chinese Google Results
  "If you want to see the Chinese Google search results, set your browser language to Chinese (zh-cn) and go to Google.cn. To test, I searched for [Tiananmen Massacre]. While the results include good information from Wikipedia and such, and much resembles n
  (tags: censorship china google freespeech search)
• Overview of Sites Google Agreed to Censor in China
  "To make for more transparency in the ongoing censorship discussion, I’ve compiled a selection of result pages in which Google censors sites in China. "
  (tags: censorship china google freespeech search)
• Sites Google Agreed to Censor in China
  "This is an incomplete selection of search results which Google.cn self-censors working together with the Chinese government. Google does not censor access to the site itself, it only censors the site within the search result; access to the sites is block
  (tags: censorship china google freespeech search chineseinternetresearch)
• Bloomberg.com: Bloomberg Columnists
  "A Google search I did of the word ``courage'' yielded more than 49 million results. ``Conscience'' returned 32 million. ``Backbone'' got more than 29 million. Too bad the company that owns the world's most-used Internet search engine appears to have non
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch google censorship search freespeech)
• …My heart’s in Accra » Understanding how Google.cn filters
  "with some knowledge of Google hackery, you can make some guesses about just how Google's removing results from its searches."
  (tags: google china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech search)
• Net Search in China: It's a Race
  "Jack Ma vows to get Yahoo! up to speed on the mainland, where rivals Baidu, Google, Sohu, and Microsoft are already running hard"
  (tags: google yahoo msn search china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech)
• Newsvine, Social news aggregator at blog . jiboneus
  "I got the chance to try out Newsvine, a new social news aggregator, similar with Digg but has all kinds of extra functionality. It combines live Associated Press content and user submitted articles."
  (tags: tools aggregation RSS newsreaders news)

Comments

[Dusty]

Saw LNH. Really nice job you did there.

[王宁]

Rebecca,Happy lunar new year of dog!