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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Google China censorship word list

The Google Blogoscoped blog has produced a list of search words that return results with some sites censored, from abreast to zebra. Here. for example, are the words beginning with H:



hair, halt, halves, hamper, handout, happen, harm, harmonica, hatred, have, health, heartfelt, hearth, heated, heavenly, heir, help, heroic, herself, hesitation, highlight, himself, hinder, hollow, homage, honours, hopeful, horrific, hound, humorous, hundred, hunt, hurdle, hurry



How the Chinese state's interests are advanced by making Google censor harmonica-related sites escapes me....

This just coveres the top 10 hits. As the site says: "Also note that Google censors sites, not words; if the list would be expanded to show not the top 10 but e.g. the top 100 sites for a particular search, the list of self-censored results would be even longer."

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