In light of the recent Green Dam debacle, Chinese internet censors are trying to make a point by picking on Google.
It seems like Google has been reluctant to compromise its search algorithm which gives the most popular sugestions for any given search term.
As can be seen in the picture above, in some cases this can lead to surprising results. In this case when one types in “儿子“ （son), the first suggestion Google give is incestuous intercourse between mother and son.
Since Google does not manually configure suggested search term suggestions, it would seem that this in fact is a very popular topic to be searched on Google China.
But the National Office of Internet Pornography will have none of it. They are now clamping down on individual search results on Google China and blocking them. According to Xinhua, authorities have “urged the search engine to carefully follow the country’s laws and regulations, take effective technical and management measures to filter pornographic content from its search”.
No reply from Google as of yet.
