Comments on: Understanding how Google.cn filters

By: Owen abroad » Never glad confident morning again!

Owen abroad » Never glad confident morning again! — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:00:55 +0000

[...] Zuckerman has been sleuthing to understand the inner workings of Google’s system to censor search results on its new China [...]

By: j|turn » Kurdish Wikipedia Filtered in Iran

j|turn » Kurdish Wikipedia Filtered in Iran — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:21:53 +0000

[...] It appears not only the Chinese are afraid of the power of wikis, although their movements are more closely monitored by the NGOs, the international press and the blogging digerati. [...]

By: StealthBadger.net » Blog Archive » More on Google.cn

StealthBadger.net » Blog Archive » More on Google.cn — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:25:12 +0000

[...] Ethan Zuckerman has been poking into just what the filter does and does not do – it’s pretty ingenious, but again, possible to defeat once you’re aware of it. It’s hard not to be unaware of it given the nature of the Chinese language, and how pictographs are used in so many different places. [...]

By: Patrick Hall

Patrick Hall — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:59:07 +0000

An interesting additional data point: Paul Boutin blogged about how the Chinese Google filter doesn't detect misspellings. Searching for misspelled terms such as tianenmen will turn up tanks, not temples. I can see version two already: "Did you mean 'Tiananmen'? Oh, well, we wouldn't have given you the results you wanted anyway."

By: infobong.com » links for 2006-01-29

infobong.com » links for 2006-01-29 — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:17:51 +0000

[...] Understanding how Google.cn filters (tags: China censorship searchengine) [...]

By: …My heart’s in Accra » Google in China: any cause for hope?

…My heart’s in Accra » Google in China: any cause for hope? — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:21:42 +0000

[...] Update – I’m wrong about this. Google.cn does index wikipedia pages. But searches for certain sensitive keywords force google.cn to give you results only from pages hosted in China. So a search for a keyword like “falun gong” will only search Chinese pages and won’t return results from wikipedia. Far more about this on another blog post. [...]