When Google initially bowed to pressure to the Chinese government to launch Google.cn as a"self-censoring" search engine that would omit certain inaccessible sites from their search results, we assumed this meant political issues, such as sites advocating democratic reform for China. On the contrary--the CNET study revealed that sites related to alcohol, teen pregnancy, sexuality and drug use, among others, are all omitted by Google searches. Compared to Yahoo and Microsoft search engines, Google is much stricter. CNET also accuses Google of failing to reveal that some results had been omitted, as the company claimed it would.



We have to wonder: Is Google taking its corporate motto of "Don't be evil" too seriously...or not seriously enough?