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Censorsed Search Results in China Changing

Rand Fishkin

The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

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Rand Fishkin

Censorsed Search Results in China Changing

The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

Si & I arrived late last night in Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province after 26+ hours of travel (which I don't recommend). Of course, I'm already set up online, trying to respond to dozens of emails, despite the use of an auto-responder. I think I'm feeling some empathy with Matt Cutts :)

While here, I couldn't help myself but to conduct one of the most talked-about searches in regards to China - Tian An Men Square. Here's a screenshot of my results:

T Square Results at Google

As you can see, the Wikipedia results and the Christusrex.org content clearly violate what I had presumed were China's government guidelines on displaying search results in the country regarding the incident. Note this article from Danny at SEW from January of last year.

Has something changed? Or am I just able to see this because I have a western computer and am connecting from a western hotel (the Sofitel)?

p.s. More to come from China as I'm able, but I'm hoping to spend as little time online as possible (and as much exploring as I possibly can).

p.p.s. For those who are interested, I had a brief interview last week with Dave Rigotti that's now online.

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