Different ways of bowing to CCP

May be this is not news, however, it might explain why Google and Yahoo were forced to bow to Chinese Communism Party (CCP) which rules the mainland China known as People Republic of China (PRC).

I searched in the following search sites hosted in the mainland China:

www.sohu.com.cn

www.yahoo.com.cn

www.google.com.cn

with the keyword “亚洲周刊”(the name of a weekly magazine from MingPao, at yzzk.com), the sohu and yahoo returned error page right away, indicating that the Web servers rejected the request. And you can not use the search engine anymore with any keyword, apparently your web connection is blocked by the search engines of yahoo and sohu.

Google.cn did return results, indicating many web pages hosted in PRC do contain the forbidden keyword.

Obviously Sohu owned by PRC residents and Yahoo owned by US citizens rejected serving those forbidden keywords appointed by CCP. However, Yahoo has clearly insulted those Chinese people living outside PRC, who need to search Chinese keywords in Yahoo with Simplified Chinese.

Though Google also bows to CCP, however, the service did not look so stupid and rude by simply rejecting the search query. Google.cn shows filtered results.

Please note, that a web page contains forbidden keywords, does not mean its content should be forbidden by CCP. For example, an article contains keyword “Fa Lunn Gong” actually criticizes Fa Lunn Gong, such article will be loved by CCP, however, if the article is not hosted in an website with official censorship in place, the article may be reached by People living in PRC, but not by queries outside PRC.

It is known that all web queries to PRC websites will be routed to a central hub, and all contents out will be scanned by the info greatwall. Further studies revealed that, those web sites (like Sina.com, XinHuaNewsNet.com, China.com, Sohu.com) with formal censorship can be retrieved even if the web pages contain forbidden keywords, and those web pages hosted by small web sites will be blocked.

That means, a web spider hosted outside PRC can not crawl through web pages hosted in the main China if the web pages contains forbidden passwords and the web site is not officially approved by CCP with proper censorship in place.

When you use Google.com to search forbidden keywords, while the query returns more results including many outside PRC, however, those web pages hosted by smaller web sites in PRC will not be included, as Google.com hosted outside PRC can not crawl the content. Though in theory that Google.cn can feed the results to Google.com through private channels, however, people outside PRC still can not access those contents because of the info great wall.

With tens of thousands of forbidden keywords appointed by CCP, large amount of web contents can not be indexed by search engine outsides the mainland China. So, Google had to place machines inside the boarder of PRC, and bow to CCP.

Through this way, those websites with formal censorship in place will be exposed more by search engines. And CCP wills will get better propaganda.