Google.cn Searches
Yeah, I’m not too happy about Google’s new Chinese site either. I found their explanation (better to censor than to not be there at all) to be weak… a surrender of the values that define the company.
A glaring difference between the .com and .cn versions can be seen on a Google image search for “tiananmen.” In the Chinese version, it’s a happy place. In the real world, not so much.
One thing I have noticed though is that people are going a bit overboard with their cries of censorship. I saw it posted that a search for “Jesus Christ” images only brought up 11 results on the google.cn search. Not true… it brings up 139,000 images. The 11 hits come from a google.cn search with results limited to servers in China. I took the liberty of translating the front page options so you don’t get fooled.
The easiest way might just be to hand-code the URIs yourself.
http://www.google.cn/search?q=searchhttp://images.google.cn/images?q=search
There’s plenty of censorship going on… no need to exaggerate the case.
