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Poor Spelling Beats Google's China Filter

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. is this really a surprise? by Fox_1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I could do some silly jurassic park quote : "Life finds a way" or something equally wise and witty, but all that's needed to be said is what's in the subject. The very concept of trying to control information on the medium of the internet is like the perpetual motion machine. Nice idea, great money sink, but utterly impossible to implement. The only way for this kinda censorship to work is for all users to agree to abide by it's rules (including correct spelling), which isn't gonna happen I think in the cases mentioned in the article. Just like file sharing, it's still possible to steal music, but most people don't bother anymore because it can be downloaded legally and as a group we generally agree to abide by that rule. Once we didn't but now we do with the existence of legal alternatives.

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  2. Re:Exploiting Google's Page Rank by Secrity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The top Google search for the word 'failure' is now MichaelMoore.com

  3. Re:That's unpossible! by mwvdlee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Y dat are funny motherateit?

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  4. Re:That's unpossible! by NetRAVEN5000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It looks like you're writing a letter!

    Would you like to launch the letter writing wizard?

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