There’s no end to stories about how Google either does or is suspected to filter its results for China (with news,
it does; with web search, China itself does).
Nice to see it getting a break and Yahoo instead taking a slam for doing search filtering. That’s covered at the end of this News.com article,
When blogging can get you locked up, spotted via
Dave Winer.
It’s not a new discovery — just one that generally is overlooked due to the usual "It’s an all-Google-world obsession."
Neither search engine makes disclosure of filtering, when it happens. They ought to. Got To Censor Search
Listings? Why Not Disclose?, China Blocks Google News — So Bring On The Disclosure and
Revisiting Google Censorship In Germany & France explain more about how and why they should do so.