Probing Chinese search engine filtering

By: nart on 19 August 2004
Posted in China, Asia, Publications

ONI conducted a research probe into the practice of search engine filtering in China, with a focus on Baidu.com and Yisou.com, two popular Chinese search engines. Our probe concludes that the Yisou and Baidu search engines are indeed actively filtering keyword search requests and that searches for certain keywords are sometimes obstructed by China's gateway filtering. Click Here for the full bulletin.