We all knew it was a matter of “when” not “if”, but it’s surprising to see that it had to happen this way. Over on Google Blogscoped, I see that Google Removes Its Help Entry on Censorship: The page which used to say: Google does not censor results for any search term. The order and content of our results are completely automated; we do not manipulate our search results by hand. We believe strongly in allowing the democracy of the web to determine the inclusion and ranking of sites in our search results.
Now simply 404s. It’s gone. Well, except for the cached copy in Google itself.
Rather than using that page to explain how and why they’ve compromised their corporate philosophy in China, they’ve removed it entirely with no e
Read the comments for a rather troubling look at Google’s censorship.