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 [...]
February 21st 2008 
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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). [...]
February 12th 2008 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
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 [...]
February 8th 2008 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
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 [...]
January 25th 2008 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
“I do intend to carry out a clear exploring exercise with the private sector … on how it is possible to use technology to prevent people from using or searching dangerous words like bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism,” Frattini told Reuters.
Wow.
Searching for such words brings up quite a number of non-bomb-making-instruction sites, forcing search [...]
October 3rd 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
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