Mntsnow
09-27-2004, 8:58 AM
GOOGLE'S new Chinese news service omits results from web sites blocked by that country's authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to "do no evil".
Dynamic Internet Technology, a research firm striving to defeat online censorship, conducted tests that found Google omits results from the government-banned sites if search requests are made through computers connecting to the internet in China.
Steered by an identical search request, computers with a United States connection retrieved results from the sites blocked by China. Read more at Austrialian IT (http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10892542%5E15322%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html)
Dynamic Internet Technology, a research firm striving to defeat online censorship, conducted tests that found Google omits results from the government-banned sites if search requests are made through computers connecting to the internet in China.
Steered by an identical search request, computers with a United States connection retrieved results from the sites blocked by China. Read more at Austrialian IT (http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10892542%5E15322%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html)