Tuesday, August 18, 2009

To Search, or not to Search (assign. 11)

So i typed in "USS Yorktown NT" into the search window's of google.com, bing.com, yahoo.com and google.cn and got about the same results in articles on all of them. The next search term was "china censorship", it produced similar results in all the web browsers as well, and if google.cn is censoring its search engine, then so is google.com because i saw just about the same stuff on the 1st page. The next term i used was "Tiananmen Square", it produced my first different web search, all search engines talked first about the Tiananmen Square protests of '89 except google.cn, they only talked about Tiananmen Square as a tourist attraction and nice place to visit. Interesting to see how a search done in America brings up only that one event 20 years ago. The last search i did was "Taiwan Independence", this search lead me too google.cn, with the other searches producing the same results on support and/or neutrality for Taiwan Independence, google.cn talks about things like traitorism and how to prevent Independence. Its such a stark contrast to see how China views its neighbors and allies. I am glad i live in America...