Enter the following search terms into google.com, bing.com, yahoo.com, and google.cn (google's Chinese website). In your blog, comment on any differences in search results you see. I don't expect you to be able to read Chinese, but the actual URLs will be in english and sometimes will have english summaries.
1. uss yorktown nt
2. google china censorship
3. Tiananmen Square
4. Taiwan independence
Google Results
1. uss yorktown nt - Wikipedia article followed by article called Sunk by Windows NT
2. google china censorship - BBC News article followed by Wikipedia article on Google China
3. Tiananmen Square - Wikipedia article on the protests of 1989, THEN the actual Tiananmen Square Wiki, followed by a travel guide and Google Pictures image results
4. Taiwan independence - Wikipedia article on Taiwan independence, followed by the article for the independence party of Taiwan. Then a 'Foreign Policy in Focus' blog and a recent news article posted six hours ago as of this writing.
Yahoo Results
1. uss yorktown nt - Wikipedia article, different article on same software issues
2. google china censorship - Censorship by Google Wikipedia article, China and Google 'Google-watch.org', Offical Google Blog: Google in China
3. Tiananmen Square - Same first two as Google, but this instead of a travel site
4. Taiwan independence - Wikipedia on Taiwan independence, followed by this from answers.com, and the same fpif.org article
Bing Results
1. uss yorktown nt - Wikipedia article, another article on their software issues leaving them 'dead in the water', and the same "Sunk by Windows NT" article from Google.
2. google china censorship - Wikipedia Censorship by Google, Google and China again, and Wikipedia on Google China
3. Tiananmen Square - image results for Tiananmen Square, Wikipedia for the protests of 1989, Wikipedia for Tiananmen Square
4. Taiwan independence - The Offical Government Site in English, Wikipedia, True History of Taiwan
Google China
1. uss yorktown nt - Sunk by Windows NT, Wikipedia, 'Dead in the water'
2. google china censorship - Google.cn, Google China Wikipedia, BBC News - Google Censors itself for China
3. Tiananmen Square - No Wikipedia or news articles. All blogs and one top post about the pronuncation of Tiananmen Square
4. Taiwan independence - Wikipedia article, but again, no news articles, just blogs.
So initially the main differences were simply where things were placed on the page and how relavant the site seemed to make Wikipedia over news articles and vica-versa. Even the first two in google.cn seems to have the same pattern. It's not until it gets down to things that are actual issues for China (Tiananmen Square and Taiwan's independence) that news articles suddenly become non existant.
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