Archive for the 'Search Monitor' Category

• 5.13.08 Microsoft: Censorship Notification Returns posted in Internet Censorship, Search Engines, Search Monitor

  Microsoft now has a censorship notification in the censored version of the search engine live.com that they provide for the Chinese market. The notification appears when search are made for particular keywords, however, the notification is not displayed when searches are restricted to censored domains. (See Degrading Transparency: Comparing Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for past [...]

• 2.21.08 Democracy “Magnified” posted in Internet Censorship, Search Engines, Search Monitor

  The “magnify” component of the Search Monitor project attempts to match the top ten results from Google/Yahoo with the top ten results form the China-specific versions of Google/Yahoo in order to note the similarities and differences in terms of censored, returned (the website is in the top ten of the both the .com and .cn [...]

• 2.12.08 A Search for Human Rights posted in Internet Censorship, Search Engines, Search Monitor

  The Search Monitor Project: China focuses on assessing the level of transparency with regard to the self-censorship practices of search engine companies as well as the mechanisms and effects of this political censorship. (For background information, see this and this.) The following is a step by step process of a search for “human rights” (人权). [...]

• 2.8.08 Search Monitor Project: China posted in Internet Censorship, Search Engines, Search Monitor

  Search engines are increasingly censoring their results, often by geographic location, having a significant, negative impact on the right to freedom of expression. The most advanced cases of censoring political content is in search engines that market a version of their product in China. This project aims to expose and monitor the censoring practises of [...]

• 1.25.08 Degrading Transparency: Comparing Google, Yahoo and Microsoft posted in Internet Censorship, Search Engines, Search Monitor

  Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft all maintain versions of their search engines for the Chinese market that censor political content. One of the key issues that emerged concerned transparency. In 2006, all three search engines, following Google’s lead, introduced a message that informed user when the results of their searches were censored. The presence of a [...]