Google Goof - Perils of Case-Sensitivity in Censorship…
Edit/Synopsis:
A bug exists in the code that Google uses to enforce censorship of its
recently announced Chinese service; the trivial bug - that
search-strings with Capitalised Words generate uncensored output -
could provide a (presumably temporary) mechanism for Chinese nationals
to bypass their government censorship.
Simon Phipps just messaged me:
(window grabs added infix for illustration)
Try this:
http://images.google.cn/images?q=Tiananmen
Result Of A Capitalised Word Google Search In China
and then
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
result of a lowercase word google search in china
…and so it looks like Google’s pro-China censorship keyword list is
in all-lowercase, and the text matching is case-sensitive.
Oopsie.
Enjoy the liberation whilst you can, citizens!
source: Google Goof - Perils of Case-Sensitivity in Censorship…
