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Tangible Impact of Censorship on Search Engines

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hands-on-fun dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NetworkWorld is reporting that Indiana University Informatics researchers have created a site that highlights the differences in query results provided by country-specific search engines. cenSEARCHip looks at engines like the versions of Google and Yahoo built to accommodate free-speech restrictions in China, Germany and France."

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  1. Just do this... by DarkNemesis618 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just misspell what you're looking for...worked for the Chinese...

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    1. Re:Just do this... by dw09577 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think most people have been doing this for years...

      Did you mean Britney Spears?

    2. Re:Just do this... by hunterx11 · · Score: 2, Funny

      http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html

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  2. I'm moving to the free world... by benjjj · · Score: 5, Funny

    China! I got 309,000,000 hits for democracy there, and only 307,000,000 in the US. The only possible explanation is that China is more free than the USA.

  3. Re:countries by LunaticTippy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll bet they do something in Soviet Russia.

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  4. Re:Not the Goverments fault. by 10101001+10101001 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, silly us for assuming that the government was the one that made copyright and the DMCA. All along, it was really the scientologist who made it and use force to ensure it exists. Stupid us.

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