- Sense and censorship
Date: 2002-09-17 Source: Guardian Unlimited
The battle for Google between Chinese authorities and the country's millions of internet users has ended, at least for now, in defeat for the web censors.
[Open In New Window] - China partially restores Google searches
Date: 2002-09-13 Source: News.com
China is once again allowing its citizens to use the popular search engine Google, but is still blocking Internet users from content it deems politically taboo as part of a media crackdown ahead of November's pivotal Communist Party congress.
[Open In New Window] - AltaVista and Google to fight Chinese censorship
Date: 2002-09-11 Source: The Register
It appears that AltaVista and Google were blocked not for providing links to sites China considers subversive, but because they also provide the means for users to see the content of blocked sites without having to visit the site itself. Other search sites that only provide links have not been blocked.
[Open In New Window] - China Blocks AltaVista
Date: 2002-09-10 Source: siliconvalley.internet.com
Search engines continue to suffer an information blockade, which coincides with a national Communist Party convention next week.
[Open In New Window] - China Hijacks Google's Domain Name
Date: 2002-09-10 Source: PCWorld.com
Internet users looking to reach Google from inside China are being rerouted to Tianwang, and several other sites like it, after Internet service providers in China hijacked the domain name for the Mountain View, California, Internet search company.
[Open In New Window] - China Net users find search blocked
Date: 2002-09-09 Source: MSNBC
Analysts said Beijing might be trying to placate its Internet users amid condemnations from right groups abroad and users at home over the blocks on Google and a second search engine, Altavista.
[Open In New Window] - Engine trouble
Date: 2002-09-05 Source: Guardian Unlimited
Google is the biggest on the web. But not everyone is a fan - some say it unfairly favours certain websites. The latest critic is China, which has blocked it completely.
[Open In New Window] - China 'blocking Google'
Date: 2002-09-02 Source: BBC
The site was repeatedly inaccessible when tested by BBC News Online using a system developed by the researchers at the Harvard Law School.
[Open In New Window] - Google inaccessible in China
Date: 2002-09-02 Source: News.com
China appears to have blocked leading search engine Google, sparking speculation of a crackdown on Internet content viewed as subversive ahead of a Communist Party congress in November.
[Open In New Window] - TopDog is back online
Date: 2002-08-06 Source: Pandia
Topdog.com is now back online, as the court appointed Reciever (representative), who controlled the domain name, has given it back to DC Micro.
[Open In New Window] - Linking Legalities: What You Need to Know
Date: 2002-07-10 Source: Search Engine Watch
Powerful interests are threatening anyone creating "deep links" to their web sites. Should you be worried? Eric Ward, a leading authority on web links, cuts through the bluster to pinpoint the important issues.
[Open In New Window] - Deep Linking Lunacy
Date: 2002-07-09 Source: Search Engine Watch
A Danish court has ruled that "deep linking" is illegal, and pundits say this decision spells doom for the Net. Should you be worried? Hardly.
[Open In New Window] - Google forced to remove links
Date: 2002-04-18 Source: Pandia
The German railway operator Deutsche Bahn has filed a lawsuit against Google forcing the company to remove links to online articles published by German-language publication Radikal.
[Open In New Window] - Google Embroiled In Scientology Debate
Date: 2002-04-02 Source: The Search Engine Report
Google found itself accused of censorship last month, after it removed some pages from an anti-Scientology web site in response to a legal request made by the Church of Scientology. A look at how the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act was involved and its implications for web searching.
[Open In New Window] - Lawsuit Over Paid Placements To Define Search Engines
Date: 2002-02-04 Source: The Search Engine Report
Must something that calls itself a "search engine" provide trademark holders with some degree of visibility, regardless of payment, if they also carry ads for searches involving those trademarks? That will be determined in a $440 million legal action filed last week by the maker of the Body Solutions weight-loss program against AltaVista, FindWhat, Kanoodle and Overture.
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