China Launches New Search Engine

stupidfoo writes "With all those nasty pro-democracy websites that Google keeps turning up, what's a communist country supposed to do? Well, create their own search engine of course! According to the AP, 'Bill Clinton on Monday helped launch a new Internet search company backed by the Chinese government which says its technology uses artificial intelligence to produce better results than Google Inc.' Accoona Corp. was one of the Chinese companies that donated an 'undisclosed amount' to the recently opened Clinton Library. Using the search engine from inside the US doesn't show any noticeable amount of censorship, but it also doesn't show how it's anywhere near the level of Google."

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[Rei]

Thanks for pointing out this basic fact: Accoona is developed by a *US COMPANY* that simply does a lot of business with China. The header remark:

"Accoona Corp. was one of the Chinese companies that donated an 'undisclosed amount' to the recently opened Clinton Library." ... is completely wrong. Accoona was developed by China Communication Corp of Hoboken, New Jersey. Last I checked, New Jersey isn't in China. Do a whois on accoona.com, also - it's adminstrative contract, its technical contact, everything is in New Jersey.

Blah. I'll bugger off now and let this thread turn to Clinton bashing, as the article submitter was undoubtedly intending.

Another comparison: Tibet

[zanderredux]

It's funny to see that a generic query on "tibet" instead of the very specific "free tibet" yields differents results.

Accoona shows a lot of tourist-related information on Tibet and pro-Chinese links on Tibet, that considers Tibet as any another region inside China.

Google, in the other hand, shows a lot of pages related to the movement to free Tibet from Chinese domination. Note the link to the Tibetan Government in Exile's website, which ranked #3 in Google. Also, note that the #3 match in Accoona (under "sponsored links"), shows the Chinese government's page on Tibet.

Isn't this undeniable proof that Accoona's filtering works?

Riiiight.

[gosand]

I am sure others will point this out, but...
Do a search for "linux" on google and on accoona.
Other searches provided just as useless results.

Linux on google:

www.linux.org/
www.linux.com/
www.redhat.com/
www.kernel.org/
www.debian.org/
www.linuxjourna l.com/
www.linux-mandrake.com/
www.linux-laptop. net/
www.linuxtoday.com/
www.gentoo.org/

Linux on accoona:

http://software-linux.jovencitas-cachondas.org/
http://software-for-linux.jovencitas-cachondas.or g /
http://programas-para-linux.jovencitas-cachonda s.o rg/
http://linux-software.jovencitas-cachondas.or g/
http://programas-en-linux.jovencitas-cachondas .org /
http://linux.ittoolbox.com/
http://ie.mojolin. com/
http://zh.mojolin.com/
http://uk.mojolin.co m/
http://au.mojolin.com/

Uhh.

[ad0gg]

China has had multistage ICMBs since the 70's. Nice try troll.

China's ICBMs

Re:Latency

[dalutong]

The Chinese suicide rate is indeed high (note: i grew up in China), but the reasons aren't easily guessed.

First, obviosly, China has 4-5 times the population. That makes China's about twice the percent.

Second, China has a very high rural suicide rate. Many of the people who commit suicide are women. While men in America successfully kill themselves more than women do, women attempt it twice as frequently as men. Imagine if America had the same poor heathcare and readily available means of suicide (deadly pesticides are commonly used, as I understand it. those are available in rural China in a way that they are not available here in the U.S.)

I don't know these numbers but I'd like to check out suicide attemp rates in the U.S. I can't really guess which would be higher. As much as I love both countries (and an American who was raised in China might), both have serious problems that could lead to high suicide rates.

Having grown up in China finding such high levels of depression in America was a surprise. After all, we're supposedly leading the lives everyone wants to emulate...