Artifact One

Network World Staff."Researchers: Impact of censorship significant in Google, other search engine results".15 March 2006. 12 Dec 2006.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/031506-google-censorship.html?fsrc=netflash-rss

When you go on the computer at school, you sometimes notice how the school system blocks certain websites like Myspace and anything that would be distracting and/or detrimental to your education. Schools do this so you'll focus more on your work. But when you get home, you can go any website you wish. But if you live in China, your choices are severely limited.
Researchers at Indiana University have created a site that allow them to compare and contrast search results from country specific search engines. Google China has been formatted to the country's free-speech restrictions.

Many people remember the bloody riot known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre in China in the late 80's.If you were to look up a image of Tiananmen Square on the U.S version of Google, you would end up with results like this:

Images from google.com

But if you were browsing on Google China, looking up images of Tiananmen Square, you would get very different results:

courtesy of google.ch

Athough I typed the same exact words in both engines, the chinese version shows no images of the riot which killed about 2,000 people. China has also made sure that are text refences to the square direct users to sites that offer hotel and tourist information instead of letting the public read about how the communist government killed hundreds of their own people.