Degrading Transparency: Comparing Google, Yahoo and Microsoft
Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft all maintain versions of their search engines for the Chinese market that censor political content. One of the key issues that emerged concerned transparency. In 2006, all...
View ArticleSearch Monitor Project: China
Search engines are increasingly censoring their results, often by geographic location, having a significant, negative impact on the right to freedom of expression. The most advanced cases of censoring...
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A Search for Human Rights
The Search Monitor Project: China focuses on assessing the level of transparency with regard to the self-censorship practices of search engine companies as well as the mechanisms and effects of this...
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Democracy “Magnified”
The “magnify” component of the Search Monitor project attempts to match the top ten results from Google/Yahoo with the top ten results form the China-specific versions of Google/Yahoo in order to note...
View ArticleMicrosoft: Censorship Notification Returns
Microsoft now has a censorship notification in the censored version of the search engine live.com that they provide for the Chinese market. The notification appears when search are made for particular...
View ArticleSearch Monitor: Toward a Measure of Transparency
Citizen Lab Occasional Paper #1, “Search Monitor Project: Toward a Measure of Transparency“, (mirror) has been released today. This report interrogates and compares the censorship practices of the...
View ArticleSearch Monitor in the Press
China’s Overeager American Censors – Forbes Practically every U.S.-owned search engine has caved to the Chinese government’s demands that they censor political Web sites in China. But none of them seem...
View ArticleFree Expression Principles
Major technology companies, including Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, have agreed, in principle, to a voluntary set of principles designed to “guide businesses when they encounter laws and practices that...
View ArticleYahoo, MSN Censor More than Baidu
China unblocked many usually censored web sites following intense international pressure and scrutiny after having promised uncensored access during the Olympics. Five days later (August 6, 2008) I...
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Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Still Censoring In China
Today MSNBC reported that Google “appears” to have stopped censoring its search engine in China, google.cn. This is not true. In Search Monitor Project: Toward a Measure of Transparency I tried to...
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