Poetic Justice - Google.cn Censors Itself

Oh, man, this should win an award for “Doh! of the Week.”

After making a controversial deal with the Chinese government in order to get into the Chinese market with the new Google.cn (but bowing to requests for censorship of their services and their search results), it must have felt like a technological cyber-slap in the face to find out that the censored version of the site blocked itself.  Oops?  The result has apparently been fixed but there’s not much forthcoming on what happened.

China Herald weighed in, saying “there is a real possibility that those who decided on what to block or unblock really have a good sense of humor.
More likely is the possibility that Google’s new addition to the internet just caused what the Chinese authorities try to prevent: an avalange of discussions.Suddenly the whole world, inside and outside China, could compare the two services and that sparked off a discussion that was not wanted by China’s internet nanny.”

That’s precisely, many agree, what the chinese government is trying to avoid with their censored search results and governmental media control.  Seems like this was either a huge error or a plan that seriously backfired - and made the disparity in the results given via Google and Google.cn sharply contrast against each other. Who knows… maybe Google put it in for just that reason?  The Chinese government isn’t really known for divulging information on things of that nature, so we may never know.

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