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China Launches New Search Engine

Posted by michael on from the if-you-find-it,-they-will-come dept.

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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  1. Re:Latency by Rei · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  2. Another comparison: Tibet by zanderredux · · Score: 4, Informative
    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?