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What do Bing, Google and Twitter have in common? http://thenextweb.com/socialm... by @Amalucky on @TNW_SocialMedia

January 31, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

search? - Dennis Chu

See-ming Lee 李思明 SML to See-ming's feed, SML Universe, Social Media, Social Media Enthusiasts, Friends of Mashable, Friendfeed上说中文, Crazy is Good

A chinese #socialmedia startup told me that they use Flex instead of HTML so that Google cannot index their content and as such the government won't be able to find "disharmonious" content and potentially shut them down!!! #china #crazyisgood

January 29, 2010 - Comment - Like - Share

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seeming, it is very sad to see this - Dennis Chu

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I think even if you use HTML, there is an option in google webmaster tools that lets you drop your site out of google index. I believe the option is called "Request url removal" or something like that. - TrafficBug

I think that the comment is not just related to Google, but any sorts of search engines - and i'm sure that the chinese government has search bots that will gladly ignore nobot rules (if I were given the task to index the web to the best of my capability regardless of rules) - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Related reading: What does China censor online? Seems facebook, ESPN, hotmail, BBC even are blocked as per this infographic. http://www.penn-olson.com/2010... - TrafficBug

pretty much. I was told that FriendFeed and Flickr are blocked also. - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

but here's an interesting tidbits - did you know that people have 'special software' that break the firewall (literally named the wall breaker which I thought was funny - it sounds funny in Chinese anyhow) - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Given the Great Wall of China metaphor both physically and digitally, it would do sound funny to say 'wall breaker' in Chinese... :) - TrafficBug

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