Thursday, January 26, 2006

Chinese Walls

[if you read this before and cound not quite see the point, that was because the first link was damaged; it has been fixed; apologies to all who were confused]

Google has decided to filter its China service, in order to censor results and avoid being barred from a lucrative market by the Chinese Government.


Here is the result of a search for Tiananmen Square on Google.com images

and

Here is the result of the same search on Google China

Can you spot the difference?

Thanks to Peter Raitt