By Joe McDonald, Associated Press = USA Today
BEIJING – Google has fired a new salvo in a censorship
battle with Beijing by adding a feature that warns users in China who enter
search keywords that might produce blocked results and suggests they try other
terms.
Google's announcement Thursday described the change as a technical improvement
and made no mention of Beijing's extensive Internet controls. But it comes after
filters were tightened so severely in recent weeks that searches fail for some
restaurants, universities or tourist information. Authorities were trying to
stamp out talk about an embarrassing scandal over the fall of a rising Communist
Party star.
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