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Google Censorship refers to the purposeful practice adopted by the Google search engine to suppress lists of web sites from its search results based on its political views and the lobbying effort of pressure groups.

Google has also been accused of manipulating search results to favor its own coporate ambitions and interests. Some critics have suggested that Google may be involved in yet more undected censorship of search results that have not yet surfaced.

Censorship of search results critical of the Chinese government

In early 2006 Google chinese search page Google.cn was discovered to censor the search resulst to satisfy the requests of the Chinese government.

Censorship of search results critical of Radical Islam

In early 2006 Google removed search results related to the news site New Media Journal from its News search engine because Muslims complained about some anti-Islam articles.

Examples of sites censored by google:

• MichNews
• The New Media Journal
• The Jawa Report

Examples of pages censored by google:

• How Has Islam Enriched Your Life?
• Islam Is as Islam Does
• Islam: A False Religion

Censorship of search results critical of Scientology

In 2002 Google was found to have censored websites that provided critical information about Scientology. ,

Further reading

• Google Censorship - How It Works

• Localized Google search result exclusions

• Report examines a newspaper-led campaign to have a site removed from both its host and the Google search index

See Also

• The Anti-Google search engine index: List of alternate and uncensored search engines

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