Internet Censorship

The four search engines that were used for this assignment are:

1. Google.com
2. Bring.com
3. www.baidu.com
4. Google.Cn


1. uss yorktown nt:
Google.com and Google.cn are the same, which would make sense since they are both a google search engine. Bing came up with the same link first as both google search engines, but says something different under the link. The link on Baidu did not come up until the third one when you search for it. It also says something different under the link. The last two also varied more between languages as most sites are not in both languages.

2. Google china censorship:
google.com has a sponsored link and then video listed before the organic results, while all the rest only have organic results. Google and Bing.com brought up lots of news articles about the China vs Google censorship issue. Google.Cn brought up a link to Google.CN and then some articles about the censorship issue. Baidu.com pulled up articles about the censorship battle and yahoo.

3. Tiananmen Square:
All but baidu.com list images and the english engines show images of the student protest. The two Chinese search engines only came up with results for How thousands of people welcomed Tiananmen Square and how it holds the Monument to the People's Heroes. Google.com's first result for Tiananmen Square was about the protests of 1989, same with Bing.com, but Google.cn and Tiananmen Square had nothing about the protests.

4. Taiwan independence:

Google lists "Scholarly" articles first, while the rest list content from wikipedia. Some articles in Google.com and Bing talk about how the US tried to help make things peaceful and about Taiwan fading independence. www.baidu.com and Google.cn brings up articles about the US not supporting Taiwan's independence.