据当地法律法规和政策,部分搜索结果未予显示。
That’s the message that Google China shows when you search for “sensitive” things, like Tiananmen or Falun Gong. (compare vs Google.com: tiananmen, falun gong) It means something like “Due to local laws and regulations, some search results were not shown.” I was surprised, however, to see that that sentence does not show on a search for Taiwan (台湾)! But then, I compared the actual search results to what Google.com return, and found them quite different. The Google.cn results are all Chinese government sites, but the Google.com results include the “real” Taiwan sites, including some at .gov.tw. Does this mean that Google.cn has two distinct levels of censorship? The kind they admit to, and the kind they do silently?


Anonymous
hhmmm they have to sign some sort of agreeement on censorship with the Chinese Gov.. Yahoo has been doing that for years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4645
Balrog30
This post is a bit old, but I’ll comment anyway.
It is possible that localized Google sites could be giving higher priority to sites that are more relevant to that locality. Government websites for Taiwan would be more important to people in Taiwan. A more accurate test for censorship would not be to check WHAT comes up, but rather the number of results. Google gives you everything it’s got, so if you search something and find that Google has fewer results on Google China, then they are censoring.
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