This is hardly new, but I've just tried using .cn and .co.uk addresses for Google Image search from the UK.
If I search for 'tiananmen square', I seem to get about as many tanks from the Chinese Google as the British one: http://images.google.cn/images?&q=tiananmen+square http://images.google.co.uk/images?&q=tiananmen+square
On the other hand, if I search just for 'tiananmen', I only get one tank in the Chinese version: http://images.google.cn/images?&q=tiananmen http://images.google.co.uk/images?&q=tiananmen
I suppose I could try it when I'm next in an Internet cafe in China, but I anticipate that I might pretty quickly find a polite but authoritative young man in a well-ironed green uniform shirt looking over my shoulder.
Incidentally, there's something strangely self-referential about the image on the far right column, second row down.
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Try searching 'Tibet' on Baidu, the market leading Chnese language search engine.....
Nicely illustrated. Of course it's not going to change for many years yet.
This is hardly new, but I've just tried using .cn and .co.uk addresses for Google Image search from the UK.
If I search for 'tiananmen square', I seem to get about as many tanks from the Chinese Google as the British one:
http://images.google.cn/images?&q=tiananmen+square
http://images.google.co.uk/images?&q=tiananmen+square
On the other hand, if I search just for 'tiananmen', I only get one tank in the Chinese version:
http://images.google.cn/images?&q=tiananmen
http://images.google.co.uk/images?&q=tiananmen
I suppose I could try it when I'm next in an Internet cafe in China, but I anticipate that I might pretty quickly find a polite but authoritative young man in a well-ironed green uniform shirt looking over my shoulder.
Incidentally, there's something strangely self-referential about the image on the far right column, second row down.
this is what zanu-labour party would love to do to the British National Party website www.bnp.org.uk
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