Google’s Lies of “Disclosure.”

After I did the "Tiananmen" search in the Chinese Google, I was curious how much of Glutter would sneak through. It seems to be ABSOLUTELY NOTHING and no reference to having censored any information either. The PR line google is hiding behind, which is how the company was making one small step and  thus better than Yahoo! and MSN because they were upfront about the filtering seems to be not true.

From Google in China Official Statement

"And yes, Chinese regulations will require us to remove
some sensitive information from our search results. When we do so,
we’ll disclose this to users, just as we already do in those rare
instances where we alter results in order to comply with local laws in
France, Germany and the U.S." 

When it comes to me, the 561 references to my name the rest of us can see simply do not exist and no mention of me being banned.

(Note: I could not get on the google.cn on my firefox browser, they forward me back to the google.com URL and have unfiltered searches. However if I use the Safari browser than I remain in the .cn site and get a filtered search. I am not sure if this is the same for PCs and explorer, as I am using a mac on OSX.)

If you’re looking for me in China..

http://www.google.cn/search?svnum=10&hl=zh-CN&lr=&cr=countryCN&q=yan%20sham-Shackleton&btnG=搜索&sa=N&tab=iw

In the world where one can search freely on the internet the first page of my name References to: "said she was disappointed with Mr. Brin’s response. …" (No kidding) "Born and Banned in China — It is one thing to understand what a Totalitarian State is on an." "the blogger behind Glutter, started blogging the day after she took part in a half a million people march …" "has blogged about Hong Kong’s democratic movement since July 2003. Her blog has been banned in China" "Blog award Cries Freedom." "I kept my promise to those who died."

http://www.google.com.hk/search?q=yan+sham-shackleton

In terms of images for "Glutter" there is a picture of a baby (Cute but not me) while in the non-censored version there are plenty photos of the Democratic Protests in Hong Kong, and the Zhao Zi Yang Memorial.

http://images.google.cn/images?svnum=10&hl=zh-CN&lr=&cr=countryCN&q=glutter&btnG=搜索

http://images.google.com.hk/images?q=glutter

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Update. I put another well known activist’s who is assosiated with a large NGO’s name in the .cn search and he comes up fine (although the organization’s site is not shown and no mention of being filtered either). So it seems that I am a extra lucky person non-grata. Thank you google, I feel so flattered.