Assignment 4

Enter the following search terms into google.com, bing.com, baidu.com (major Chinese search engine) and google.cn (google's Chinese website). In your blog, comment on any differences in search results you see. I don't expect you to be able to read Chinese, but the actual URLs will be in english and often will have english summaries.

1. uss yorktown nt

2. google china censorship

3. Tiananmen Square

4. Taiwan independence

For item #1 uss Yorktown nt

Google.com: Amt of pages 113,000, First 3 Web pages: Sunk by Windows NT, USS Yorktown, This is what happens when you use Windows NT

Bing.com:Amt of pages 8,130, First 3 Web pages: Sunk by Windows NT, USS Yorktown, OT Software glitches, Software glitches leave

Baidu.com: Amt of pages 0.064, First 3 Web pages: USS Yorktown, Sunk by Windows NT, Aircraft Carrier

Google.cn: Amt of pages 4,280, First 3 Web Pages: Sunk by Windows, USS Yorktown, Windows NT Crashes

For item #2 google china censorship

Google.com: Amt of pages 5,080,000, First 3 Web Pages: Internet censorship in the peoples pepublic, Official google blog, Despite censorship, Censorship in China

Bing.com: Amt of pages 160,000,First 3 Web Pages: Censorship by Google-Wikipedia, China and Google, Google China-Wikipedia, BBC News

Baidu.com: Amt of pages 28,800, First 3 Web Pages: Google China Censorship, Google China censorship, Google to end China censorship after email breach, Google to end censorship after breach

Google.cn: Amt of pages 302,000,000, First 3 Web Pages Google, Censorship in the peoples Republic of China, Internet censorship the People’s republic of China, Official Google blog

For item #3 Tiananmen Square

Google.com: Amt of pages 1,210,00, First 3 Web Pages: Tiananment Square protest of 1989, Tiananmen Square-Wikipedia, Beiging Tiananmen Square

Bing.com: Amt of pages 695,000, First 3 Web Pages: Tiananment Square protest of 1989, Tinanmen Square-Wikipedia, Tiananmen Squre Tianan men tower.

Baidu.com: Amt of pages 2,480, First 3 Web Pages: Tiananmen Square, Torch relay passes through Tiananmen Square, My mother s four visits to Tianmen Square

Google.cn: Amt of pages 46,400, First 3 Web Pages: Tiananmen square, Google Tiananmen Square, Tian’an Men square

For item #4 Taiwan independence

Google.com: Amt of pages 1,240,000, First 3 Web Pages: Taiwan Independence-Wikipedia, Taiwan Indendence Party, Taiwan Independence Movement

Bing.com: Amt of pages 4,560,000, First 3 Web Pages: Taiwan Indepedendence-Wikipedia, Foreign Policy in Focus, Taiwan Indendence and free Lunche

Baidu.com: Amt of pages 70,800, First 3 Web Pages: Taiwan independence-Wikipedia, English News, China Watch-Lee Deng Hui claims never pursue

Google.cn: Amt of pages 15,900,000,First 3 Pages: Taiwan independence-Wikipedia, Taiwan Independence, gradual Taiwan Indepence, Taiwan independence provocation doomed to fail

I found that the web browsers are very much a like in many ways, It was very hard to understand the Chinese search engines results, some where in Engish and some in Chinese it was very hard to compare. With Google and Bing I found that there was a big difference with the searches. Bing had more to offer with information and google seemed to have very little information. Although the first couple of pages had the same information and websites. There was a big difference