Roughly 20 protesters from Students for a Free Tibet — including a number of Tibetan nationals — gathered in front of Google's headquarters last Wednesday to protest the company's launch of a government-filter-compliant search engine in China. Link, more images here. (Thanks, Telendro)
Paul Boutin has discovered that one way to thwart internet filters is too spel yur serch qweries inkorreckly. Link.
Over at News.com, Declan McCullagh reports that Google.cn not only omits politically sensitive material, but "goes further than similar services from Microsoft and Yahoo by targeting teen pregnancy, homosexuality, dating, beer and jokes." Link
Link to Joy of Tech comic by Nitrozac and Snaggy. (Thanks, Robert)
Here's another comic by Metin Seven: Link.
Reader Comment: Simon says,
Someone on the IP list spotted that the blacklist is case sensitive. Link.
Reader comment: Suomy Anona says,
I saw Googlecompare posted on a blog forum. You enter a search term and it compares the english results to the chinese results then gives you the links that are in the Google.com results but not the Google.cn results. Some of the things blocked (or put miles down in the results) are quite interesting (including BoingBoing's "Photo: lesbian kiss in Tiananmen Square under guards, Mao"). Obviously it is affected both by ordereding of results and complete censorship, but it can check the first 300 chinese results: Link
