Poor Spelling Beats Google's China Filter

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Poor Spelling Beats Google's China Filter

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 31, 2006 @01:29AM from the see-thats-why-i-misspell-stuff dept.

antifoidulus writes "CNN's money section contains a blurb(among other blurbs) about how poor spelling can beat Google's Chinese filter. The example given in the article is that a search for "Tiananmen" will yield peaceful pictures of the square, but a search for common mis-spellings such as "Tienanmen" will yield plenty of photos of tanks."

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That's unpossible! by AltGrendel · 2006-01-31 01:30 · Score: 5, Funny

I are a gud spelr!

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1. Re:That's unpossible! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-31 01:37 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I are a gud spelr!
  Did you mean: Tibet should be free
2. Re:That's unpossible! by networkBoy · 2006-01-31 02:18 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Ironically this could force China to improve the overall education level, which would of course backfire as an educated populace is much more difficult to control.
  [/longshot]
  
  -nB
  
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This gives me an idea... by Lord_Slepnir · 2006-01-31 01:33 · Score: 5, Funny

This gives me an idea of how I can get past Bush and Co. monitoring my internet usage. I'll be able to say with a straight face that I never searched for Porn, but rather I was hoping to find information about shellfish
1. Re:This gives me an idea... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-31 01:41 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  That's a little fishie! (crushtation (sp!))
  
  How about some underage action?
  
  Oh baby, look at the wheels on that one!.
Taco, You Got a Great Career Ahead Of You... by RobotRunAmok · 2006-01-31 01:33 · Score: 5, Funny

...as a Leader of the Revolution.
This is irony at best... by brxndxn · 2006-01-31 01:39 · Score: 5, Funny

So.. Chinese people speaking the same broken Engrish on the Internet as they typically do elsewhere beats the Great Firewall of China.

Engrish in the spirit of Freedom!

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Bug report successfully submitted by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-31 01:46 · Score: 4, Funny

Thanks for your feedback. We will endeavour to respond to your bug report as soon as possible, and release an update if appropriate.

Sincerely,

Google information liberation management team
Google Inc. "Do no evil."
Re:slashdot by c_forq · 2006-01-31 01:48 · Score: 1, Funny

So should grammar Nazi's label everyone they correct a karma farmer now?

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oh well..... by Stephen+Samuel · 2006-01-31 01:51 · Score: 1, Funny

It was good while it lasted.

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Re:Obvious by hunterx11 · 2006-01-31 01:58 · Score: 1, Funny

It's pretty hard to misspell words in a writing system with no spelling.

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Re:slashdot by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-31 02:00 · Score: 2, Funny

There's no apostrophe in grammar Nazis, at least not in the context you meant. Watch out for them though, they're everywhere.
Re:Not for long by lxs · 2006-01-31 02:00 · Score: 2, Funny

Google search results for: "falung kong" 0

did you mean: "Please report me to the authorities" ?
Finally, something good comes from spammers! by elrous0 · 2006-01-31 02:10 · Score: 2, Funny

Hey folks in Chyna, looking for some fr33dom? Don't let T1nnamin Squar3 get you down, try some V1agr@!
-Eric

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My is happiness! by Jesus_666 · 2006-01-31 02:15 · Score: 1, Funny

Writing of the damaged Engrish is inducement of Great Firewall failure! China is go for many information of the "freedom" by using spelling of the internet Engrish! 31i73 breaking of the language, for great justice!!

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Re:Obvious by Articuno · 2006-01-31 02:39 · Score: 3, Funny

In my language X sounds like SH, your insensitive clod! (couldn't resist :-)

ps: I speak portuguese, that's why X can sound like SH... I don't know about other languages, but i'd guess this happens to other latin-based ones :-)

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Re:On Behalf of Google, Freedom, and common sense by rizole · 2006-01-31 02:43 · Score: 2, Funny

Teh ferst rul ov gugul, iz dont talk abowt gugul.
Don't you know... by ab762 · 2006-01-31 03:40 · Score: 2, Funny

God Hates Shrimp?