Science & Technology admin on 07 May 2006 02:34 pm
Google, Chinese Style
(FiniteTimes.com) – “I came to the conclusion that more information is better, even if it is not as full as we would like to see.” – Sergey Brin
Ripping a page from George Bush’s Naa Naa Naa Naa I Don’t Hear You information bubble playbook, Google co-founder Sergey Brin announced that his search engine would begin delivering censored results to China’s 100 million Internet surfers.
Some 1000 terms & phrases – including “Falun Gong,” “democracy,” “hold the MSG” and “Made in China? What a piece of crap!” – will be stripped from the China-originated returns of the Google search engine. Any Chinese citizens trying to search on any of these banned terms will instead be redirected to a page with the simple message: “Please put your hands on your head and wait. Authorities will be knocking on your door shortly. And oh yeah… Japan sucks.”
Future localized search term bans are currently being considered for a number of areas, including England (“dental,” “dentist,” “Bush’s lapdog”), Kansas (“evolution,” “gay,” “gay, but I’m oddly attracted”) and Louisiana (“FEMA”).
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