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Google China unblocks sensitive keyword
results
By J. Michael Cole
STAFF REPORTER
Thursday, Mar 18, 2010, Page 1
US media reported on Tuesday that search engine Google was rumored to have
lifted restrictions on its Chinese search engine at www.google.cn.
ˇ§Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square democracy
protests, Tibet and regional independence movementsˇ¨ could be searched and
accessed through Google.cn, the Epoch Times newspaper quoted MSNBC as saying.
NBC said that while search results were ˇ§erraticˇ¨ and access to certain Web
sites was occasionally denied, the improvement from just six months ago was
nevertheless significant.
Performing searches using keywords such as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the
Times said that some photos and related material were accessible.
A search for ˇ§Falun Gongˇ¨ ˇX the spiritual group with ties to the Times ˇX
resulted in one image of anti-torture exhibits held by Falun Gong adherents, the
Times said. While official Falun Gong Web sites did not show up in search
results, a link to Tian Ti Books, which sells Falun Gong books, showed up at the
top of the search results, the paper said.
Most of the keywords were in Chinese, the Times said.
Searches conducted by the Taipei Times last night revealed that English searches
for Falun Gong returned results for Tian Ti Books, the English Wikipedia page on
the organization, various videos and the Web page of the Falun Dafa in
Singapore. Searches using Chinese keywords were not as successful, while
searches for the Tiananmen Square Massacre or ˇ§Incidentˇ¨ in Chinese and English
appeared to be censored again.
Searches for key student leaders during the Massacre, including Wang Dan (¤ý¤¦),
provided some results, including a picture of him standing in front of a board
reading ˇ§Taiwan Foundation for Democracy.ˇ¨ Searches for Taiwanese independence,
using both Chinese and English keywords, yielded several results, including
blogs.
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