Assess the importance of censorship in China

JackKnife

A Vivid example of masculine pulchritude
Mark Meiss and Filippo Menczer have developed a clever system allowing to make a direct comparison of the outputs of famous search engines (Google or Yahoo) depending on the country where you are. It’s fine for searches within the "image" category.
Interestingly, you can compare the outputs for France, United States, Germany and……China!
The link is here: http://homer.informatics.indiana.edu/censearchip/
Try out what happens when you’re in China or another country and search for “Tian’anmen”.
Pretty clear.  :-[
I also tried “iron Maiden” (obviously). Nice pictures. -_-



Source: L'hebdo, Lausanne quoted in Courrier International n° 808.
 
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