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January 5, 2009
China to Crack Down on Search Engines
Bloomberg is reporting that China plans to crack down on search engines, among other sites they deem harmful. This certainly wouldn't be the first time.
The reason this time is concerns over pornography. Of course, search engines don't host pornography on their sites, they simply provide links to searchers. If China feels it has a pornography problem, the origination of that problem begins with the searcher, not the engine.
Web sites and search engines that ignore their new found regulations will face penalties and possible closure.
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Posted by Nathania Johnson on January 5, 2009 9:10 AM
Comments
If you don't want your site to be delisted from Chinese search engines, you should remove all "harmful" keywords immediately.
China SEO Consultant January 6, 2009 12:20 AM
Bullshit.
No news about the coming internet filter in Australia or is a filter only bad when the Chinese use it?
Let me guess, Australia's filter is completely different then the Chinese one?
Why people in America only can speak bad about China? Frustration that they are becoming the leaders in the world?
Pascal January 6, 2009 9:36 AM
