“By prompting people to revise their queries, we hope to reduce these
disruptions and improve our user experience from mainland China,” wrote
Alan Eustace, a senior vice president with the Mountain View,
California-based company in a blog post on late Thursday.
Friday, June 01, 2012
Google Offers Chinese Users New Feature to Detect Censorship Trigger Words
Search giant Google said it will show
warnings to users in mainland China who are searching a
topic that can trigger the regime’s Internet blockade.
Over the years, China has had a tight grip on its Internet, censoring
terms related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Falun Gong, blind
Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, sensitive rumors, and
other terms.
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