Search Engine Homework

Enter the following search terms into google.com, bing.com, baidu.com (major Chinese search engine) and google.cn (google's Chinese website). In your blog, comment on any differences in search results you see. I don't expect you to be able to read Chinese, but the actual URLs will be in english and often will have english summaries.

1. uss yorktown nt

2. google china censorship

3. Tiananmen Square

4. Taiwan independence



For item #1 all the search results were very similar, as that topic was just and informational item related to Microsoft NT an how it caused some computer glitch problem on a US navy ship.  I did note, however, that Bing's results seemed just like all the other results, even though it was negative press about Bing's mother company Microsoft.  Microsoft didn't seem to alter the search results to hide this information.

For item #2  most of the returns seemed similar, because the ideological differences are still shrouded within the conversation.  It seemed like there were many different opinions represented by all search engines.

But when searching out information on #3 the search results got creepy.  The China search engines, Baidu and Google.cn did not return any results relating to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 in which 3000 pro-democracy protesters were killed when the Chinese military used force to clear the square. 
China continues to censor information on the internet in China and the search results for Tiananmen Square search results reflect that consoring.

Item #4 has similar results to #3.  Notable the Google.cn page actually returned an error code.