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Thursday, March 16, 2006 

Censorship? Google? Never!

A month after the launch of Google.cn, Saved From The Skip took a crash course in basic Mandarin in order to do some research into Google's Chinese search engine.
Here are the results of a few quick searches, compared to the equivalent searches on Google.co.uk:

Search phrase: “Falun Gong”
Hits: (google.co.uk): 2,180,000
Hits: (google.cn): 78,800

Search phrase: “Tibet”
Hits: (google.co.uk): 16,700,000
Hits: (google.cn) : 3,160,000

Search phrase: “Prince Charles”
Hits: (google.co.uk): 22,500,000
Hits: (google.cn) : 65,000

Search phrase: “Prince Charles thinks Hu Jintao is an appalling old waxwork”
Hits: (google.co.uk): 5
Hits: (google.cn) : 5

Search phrase: “Tiananmen Square”
Hits: (google.co.uk): 1,870,000
Hits: (google.cn) : 48,800

Search phrase (exact): “Tiananmen Square massacre”
Hits: (google.co.uk): 296,000
Hits: (google.cn) : 323

Search phrase (exact): “Free Tibet Campaign”
Hits: (google.co.uk): 67,600
Hits: (google.cn): 20

Conclusion: as the results of this ultra-scientific experiment clearly show, Google has NOT censored the content of its Chinese website in any way. (And if you dare to think otherwise, you will instantly disappear without a trace along with all your family, and all evidence of your miserable existence will immediately be erased from the World Wide Web.)

Thank you for your kind attention.

2 comments

those statistics indicate that the Cinese dont give a toss what Prince Charles thinks about Chinese officials and the Brits dont give a toss about what Prince Charles thinks.Period.

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