Google currently censors a lot of searches in China, but they also filter out results in the US. For instance, they remove torrent sites (basically sites that link to movies, music, etc that you can download, see torrentspy.com for an example).
http://www.google.com/search?q=torrentspy&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-18,GGGL:en (scroll down to the bottom to see the notice)
They also removed a anti-Scientology website
http://www.google.com/search?q=xenu&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-18,GGGL:en
for example.
Should they allow all searches, or clean the Internet up?
2007-08-18 11:09:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet ➔ Google
They shouldn't censor anything. Because then that will carry over to reading material and what we can watch on TV or at the movies and then the whole world will be damned! ( I can't believe Google removed an anti Scientology website- is this not a free country?? Are the people at Google secretly Scientologists?) The problem with *cleaning the Internet up* is that everyone has their own idea of what they'd like to get rid of, *for the good of the people* and I don't believe in censorship. We are not in China, we are, for the most part, in America, land of the free? This isn't George Orwell's, "1984".
2007-08-18 11:22:52 · answer #1 · answered by PURR GIRL TORI 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, technically, Google can censure whatever they want. They aren't deleting the sites, so I don't think there is anything wrong with it...
However, if you have a Google account, you can set your own search filter preferences I believe (i.e. High, Medium, Low, None...)
2007-08-18 18:19:10 · answer #2 · answered by sporker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Google is generally my second choice for searches. usually technical stuff. But I don't agree with censorship. However, those who own it can do just about anything they want with it. We don't have to use it. I use Yahoo mostly.
2007-08-18 18:19:30 · answer #3 · answered by David L 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In my own experiences, I have witnessed people losing their minds and souls from visiting sites that censorship committees blundered to rectify. We need more censorship, in fact, any information put on the net must be screened before allowed on the net.
"Suspicion breeds confidence."
2007-08-18 18:20:47 · answer #4 · answered by widerworldweb 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All searches must be allowed.
2007-08-18 18:18:28 · answer #5 · answered by Zombie Birdhouse 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo is a search engine too, use them. :)
2007-08-18 18:16:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-08-18 18:14:13 · answer #7 · answered by stu h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋