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So if Google knows that he must leave the hammer on all the results for Tiananmen field for short time? And how he knew that he was once again secure more limited filter?

Google does not say, outside the previous to the interview and statements that have been given the tricky balancing act in China. "Google.cn in accordance with Chinese law."

Differences in the search results some time in China is the result of various factors, including the content available on the Internet, and we follow the rules in China, "the company said in a statement last week.

But has confirmed that Google has been down the previous method of determining the self-censorship is the search results - ping called Great Firewall of China to view a blocked site - in favor of new methods of censorship that the company refused to disclose. Difficult choice

Google's official entry to China in 2006 forced the company Google.cn a difficult balance to strike between the objectives stated in the world to make information widely available and the requirements that all Internet companies to do business in China to comply with government regulations on censorship.

In some ways, Google has improved information flow in China. After entering the market, he made sure to include a disclaimer like the above in addition to the search results for the query-sensitive, something that does not even Baidu now. Decision that allowed the Internet search in China does not get their power from what is available on the Internet to a question.

In addition, a study published by the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab in June 2008 found that Google was the most censored search engine in China. Google's second most widely used search engine in China, Baidu back.

In the past, company executives have justified censored Google in China with a glass three-quarters full analogy: better to offer Chinese Internet users access to a lot of information that can be if they can not find the cost of "pull some books from the library," so to speak.

They also, of course, does not want to miss out on the Internet may be the land rush of 21st century as a massive population of China continues to come online.

However, determining which books to leave and interesting book that is not easy. Google representatives during the week to repeatedly in the article "The New York Times" from 2006 that described Google's methodology to make choices that are difficult.

From the article: Brin's team to face another challenge: how to determine which sites to block? The Chinese government will not provide the list. So Google's engineers hit on the high-technology solutions. They set up a computer and programmed in China to try to access the website outside the country, one by one. If the site is blocked by a firewall, it means that the government is seen as the dark - so be part of Google's blacklist.

System which is no longer in place, the Google representative confirmed. Despite repeated questions, there is no information available about the new system: whether it involves taking cues directly from the government, by its own choice of Google engineers, or others.

With the way, Google's reluctance to talk about censorship, and China is understandable. With the Chinese government seems to be written in a deliberately vague as a way to encourage companies to censor the Internet more than the government would really want to see taken from the internet.

In 2006, CNET's Declan McCullagh that Google.cn censored search results far more important than appears, which has been proven when Google returned access to web sites such as Budweiser.com the following article, with no real reaction from the Chinese government.

The Times article from 2006 also notes that there is a weekly meeting between government officials and Internet companies known as "wind-blowing" meeting, as in, you do not need the weather to know that the way the wind blows in China, you must be a bureaucrat.

During that meeting, government officials will discuss upcoming events and instructions on who they want to go unnoticed, according to the article.

Relevance Lost

Before the anniversary of 20. Tiananmen massacre in the field, it seems like some of the meeting in progress. Web sites in China were forced to close for a short time period around the June 4, many of them, known sarcastically "China Internet Day Care."

Unlike twitter, Google's YouTube, and WordPress, Google.cn does not close for about birthdays. But of far more cruel than the search results before the first week of June, or at the moment.

Whatever Google's filter uses both are flexible and appropriate. Search for clear terms such as "Tiananmen Square" and "Tank Man" returned no results between about 3 and June 10 in June, but last Thursday because generic once again does not return results related to the event 4 Jun 1989.

However, during the "China Internet Maintenance Sunday," to find Google.cn "4 Jun occurrence" (the Chinese term for the June 4, 1989), "Goddess of Democracy" and "Tiananmen Square massacre," all returned results that one may akan is frowned upon by the Chinese government, including photos from the Goddess of Democracy - a statue of Liberty as a number built by student protesters - staring at the portrait of Chairman Mao on Tiananmen Gate.