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 reports).
| May 13, 2008 | |||||
| Engine | Presence | Placement | Specificity | Connection | Screenshot |
| Yes | High Notification is placed under results |
Low Mentions “local law” |
Yes Notification only appears when results are censored |
screenshot | |
| Yahoo | Yes | Medium Notification is placed at the bottom of every page |
Low Mentions “local law” |
No | screenshot |
| Microsoft | Yes* | Medium Notification when searching for particular “key words”.* |
Low Mentions “local law” |
Yes* | screenshot (2) |
* Microsoft provides notification when searching for particular “key words”, however, no message appears when restricting the search to a censored web site.