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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. A Search Result Falling in the Woods... by klenwell · · Score: 4, Interesting

    with no one around... does it exist?

    I've always been amused by search result comparisons -- especially when they compare total results since most results beyond the first 1000 (as in the case of Google or Yahoo) are inaccessible.

    What's the point, for instance, of Google saying there are 16,000,000 results for your query when they will only show you the first 700? I think this is even true of their API.

    Incidentally, if for some reason you need to quickly find the last known google result, there's always http://www.lastgoogle.com/.

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