Chinese Google no longer shows porn

In June of this year, Google was harshly criticized by Chinese state-owned media and government monitoring commissions because Google.cn’s search engine misses links to pornographic sites in search results. For some time, access to Google.com and other Google websites was blocked everywhere in China, and the government demanded that the company suspend the display of search results on foreign websites until the content sorting function was turned on. The scandal began to subside in July, after a meeting of state censor committees with the leadership of Google, as a result of which some of the blocked Google services were unfrozen.



Google modified the search algorithm and added the filtering feature to porn content, after which many government agencies unblocked the Google search engine and expressed their appreciation to the company for “taking a serious attitude” to the fight against pornography.



Google.cn has a long-standing practice of “culling” search results for inappropriate content. The results page displays a message stating that some search results could not be viewed. These include, for example, the results for Tiananmen (the name of the square in Beijing, where in 1989 hundreds of people were killed while trying to disperse a student demonstration in support of the democratic system), as well as search results, where the key words are the names of major politicians. Does not show the search engine and the results for the request Xu Zhiyong - the name of the defender of human rights, who was recently arrested for a period of one month. A message appears on the screen stating that not shown “search results may contain information that is contrary to law, other legal acts or a political course.”



Google itself believes that, as an international service, "must strictly follow local laws and legal acts." Baidu, the leading Chinese search engine and Google’s main rival, also filters search results.

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via pcworld.com