Google fixes China search bugs

CNET News | Jan. 27, 2006 (News Report)

A day after Google's buggy censorship of sites for Chinese-users was revealed, the search giant has responded by fixing its filters so topics such as beer and jokes are no longer deleted. An investigation published Thursday by CNET News.com showed that Google's new China search engine not only censored criticisms... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by David Fox - Feb 9, 2006 - 2:46 PM PST
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 by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008

Useful information. The report digs deeper than previous stories on this topic, and provides the facts we need to better understand what happened. Good work!

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Good followup to the Google censorship story.

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