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Tangible Impact of Censorship on Search Engines

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday March 15, 2006 @07:58AM 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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I'm moving to the free world... by benjjj · 2006-03-15 08:13 · 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.