Google.cn

from the Detroit Free Press:

Google is criticized for censoring sites
BY CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
ASSOCIATED PRESS

January 26, 2006

SHANGHAI, China -- Google Inc. launched a search engine Wednesday in China that censors material about human rights, Tibet and other topics sensitive to the government -- defending the move as a trade-off that grants users in China greater access to other information.

Within minutes of the launch of the new site -- which bears China's Web suffix, ".cn" -- searches for the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement showed that scores of sites were omitted and users were directed to articles condemning the group posted on Chinese government Web sites.

Searches for other sensitive subjects such as the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader, Taiwan independence and terms such as "democracy" and "human rights" yielded similar results.

Try searching "amnesty international china", "tibet", "tiananmen square massacre", "freedom", "democracy", "falun gong", and "human rights" in ordinary Google.com and with Google.cn

UPDATE: Damn, ang baba ng ranking ng blog ko sa google china if i type the search words "philippine politics" (without the quotes). Sa regular google, top ten yung Philippine Politics 04.

Bakit China, BAKEET??? O sige na, I will stop talking about democracy, freedom, fighting corruption, censorship, and clean elections, OKIE?.

UPDATE: More on Google China's censorship from Rebecca Mckinnon.

Major roundup here.

UPDATE: Bryan Preston has done his own testing on Google.cn with interesting (and not exactly surprising) results.