{"id":372927,"date":"2018-08-11T06:51:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T05:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-inside-googles-effort-to-develop-a-censored-search-engine-in-china\/"},"modified":"2018-08-11T06:51:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T05:51:10","slug":"prison-planet-com-inside-googles-effort-to-develop-a-censored-search-engine-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-inside-googles-effort-to-develop-a-censored-search-engine-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Inside Google\u2019s Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/08\/08\/google-censorship-china-blacklist\/\"><strong>The Intercept<\/strong><\/a><br \/>August 10, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>GOOGLE ANALYZED SEARCH<\/u> terms entered into a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for a censored search engine it has been planning to launch in China, according to confidential documents seen by The Intercept.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Engineers working on the censorship sampled search queries from 265.com, a Chinese-language web directory service owned by Google.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Google.com and other Google services, such as YouTube, 265.com is not blocked in China by the country\u2019s so-called Great Firewall, which restricts access to websites deemed undesirable by the ruling Communist Party regime.<\/p>\n<p>265.com was founded in 2003 by Cai Wensheng, a Chinese entrepreneur known as the \u201cthe godfather of Chinese webmasters.\u201d In 2008, Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/article\/84568\/google-buys-chinese-launch-page-265com.html\">acquired<\/a> the website, which it now operates as a subsidiary. Records show that 265.com is hosted on Google servers, but its physical address is listed under the name of the \u201cBeijing Guxiang Information and Technology Co.,\u201d which is based out of an office building in northwest Beijing\u2019s Haidian district.<\/p>\n<p>265.com provides news updates, links to information about financial markets, and advertisements for cheap flights and hotels. It also has a function that allows people to search for websites, images, videos, and other content. However, search queries entered on 265.com are redirected to Baidu, the most popular search engine in China and Google\u2019s main competitor in the country.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Google has used 265.com as a de facto honeypot for market research, storing information about Chinese users\u2019 searches before sending them along to Baidu. Google\u2019s use of 265.com offers an insight into the mechanics behind its <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/08\/01\/google-china-search-engine-censorship\/\">planned Chinese censored search platform<\/a>, code-named Dragonfly, which the company has been preparing since spring 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/08\/08\/google-censorship-china-blacklist\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, August 10, 2018  at  7:33 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow...<\/div>\n\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/inside-googles-effort-to-develop-a-censored-search-engine-in-china.html\">Read more<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The InterceptAugust 10, 2018 GOOGLE ANALYZED SEARCH terms entered into a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for a censored search engine it has been planning to launch in China, according to confidential documents seen by The Intercept. Engineers working on the censorship sampled search queries from 265.com, a Chinese-language web directory service owned by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}