Today in China

Another big company is working hand in hand with the Chinese Government on censoring the web. Google agreed to auto censored its search results of content deemed offensive or subversive.

The good news is that this censorship only apply to their new Chinese language website. The English version is still uncensored. Well, not really… The search results are not censored by Google but the access to some websites might still be restricted by the government censors who monitor the Internet Activity.

Users of http://www.google.cn searching for sensitive keywords will see the following message:

据当地法律法规和政策，部分搜索结果未予显示。
In line with local laws and policies, parts of the result are not listed.
You may see the message for this request about freeing Tibet

And this news is running on China Daily!

Update
I just found a page with some samples of what kind of websites are blocked on Google.cn on this page. The analysis is basic but still quite interesting and shows what kind of websites are censored. A search for “falun gong” gives 11,900 results on Google.cn instead of 2,750,000 results. A search for “playboy” returns 17,700,000 entries instead of 48,900,000. Another funny one is the search for “fuck” (oooops…. sorry :-S ) that returns only 189,000 results while the official Google.com will give 89,600,000!
Leave a comment if you find another set of keywords!

Links:
China Daily - 2006 01 26
Chinese version of Google