Censorship

[hellziggy]

I love my Google searches. But all this talk about the censorship in China? It just makes me wonder how much trust we can put into searches here. How are we gonna know that something has been censored out? How will we know when it's Google lying to us?

Here are the results of two Google image searches. The first is at the US site we usually all use: Tiananmen Square

But if you go to google.cn and do the same search, this is what you get: Tiananmen Square

Comments

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

But if you go through all the images the Chinese one has NO pics of the tanks.

[jane]

oh! very good point! I wonder if there are any later in the search result pages...

(the tanks are such a ubiquitous picture to me that it completely didn't register. d'oh!)

[jane]

damn! and I even did a search with 天安门 and got 4,000+ results, but no tanks. O_o;

A search for 坦克 however did get results, but none of them from the massacre.

that's just sad. :(

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

I don't read Chinese! What were those searches? I'm guessing the second one is for "tank."

I just searched "tiananmen tank" and got NO matches.
The same thing on the US site brought up 94 matches, including ones from places like cnn.com and news.bbc.co.uk

Yes, very sad.

[jane]

the first is tiananmen and the second is tank. (I don't either, I just like to collect dictionaries and language books. I took, like 1 semester in 10th grade and that's not anywhere *near* enough to be able to read it, so I just looked it up.)

doing a search of 天安门 + 天安门 does get you 2 pictures one of which is not a tank. grrr...