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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Inverse Google China

I’ve created a new Custom Search Engine called Inverse Google China. This search engine finds only pages from sites self-censored at Google.cn, as listed in the table below. It’s working on a very incomplete sample list of censored domains only, covering over 27 million pages (based on Google page count).

DomainCensored pages
geocities.com11,100,000
angelfire.com6,700,000
news.bbc.co.uk2,300,000
epochtimes.com2,220,000
geocities.co.jp1,440,000
freewebs.com894,000
members.lycos.co.uk659,000
wenxuecity.com559,000
boxun.com392,000
network54.com321,000
singtao.com278,000
rfa.org188,000
hrw.org44,500
web.singnet.com.sg36,200
voa.gov54,800
tsquare.tv290

You can “invert” Google for other countries too; while in China you may end up with a search engine with a focus on user-created content, news sites and human rights organizations, an “inverse Google Germany” might end up being a quasi neo-Nazi search engine (searching domains like codoh.com or stormfront.org, which are censored on Google.de).

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