The Chinese regime’s mouthpiece, CCTV, has recently accused Google of being a porn search engine and has provided some facts to support this position. Some Chinese bloggers, however, claim that such facts are fabricated by the regime with the underlying intention to support the mandatory installation of its new keywords filtering software, Green Dam-Youth Escort, staring from July 1.
The June 18 Chinese Central TV (CCTV) program “In Focus” said links to porn sites were provided by Google even when searching with keywords such as “son” in Chinese. The regime’s Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center has strongly condemned Google.cn and has called for necessary action to “purify the Internet”
Some Chinese blogger refute this conclusion. According to an online article from mainland China, an Internet traffic analyzer claims that one week before the CCTV program, Google’s keywords suggestion feature was used to perform an enormous amount of search with porn-related vocabularies; the single day search for porn phrases on Google increased 5950 percent compared to a year ago. The volume of searches with porn phrases was also several thousand times higher than the previous month.
Google’s keyword suggestion comes from computers compiling the most recent popular keyword searched on Google. The analyst also shows that such search request all came from Beijing.
