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January 21, 2005

Yahoo Filtering Search For China

There's no end to stories about how Google either does or is suspected to filter its results for China (with news, it does; with web search, China itself does). Nice to see it getting a break and Yahoo instead taking a slam for doing search filtering. That's covered at the end of this News.com article, When blogging can get you locked up, spotted via Dave Winer.

It's not a new discovery -- just one that generally is overlooked due to the usual "It's an all-Google-world obsession."

Neither search engine makes disclosure of filtering, when it happens. They ought to. Got To Censor Search Listings? Why Not Disclose?, China Blocks Google News -- So Bring On The Disclosure and Revisiting Google Censorship In Germany & France explain more about how and why they should do so.

Posted by Danny Sullivan at January 21, 2005 3:01 PM

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