27.4. Baidu (百度, Chinese Google)
The "Google of China":
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Search engine: original business and still served at the toplevel domain
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Autocomplete suggestion for "Ciro Santilli": "cirosantilli的妻子" (Ciro Santilli’s wife and Children)
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Clearly and obviously censors pages with keywords, e.g.:
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"Ciro Santilli Stack Overflow" hits https://stackoverflow.com/users/9160762/ciro-santilli and not https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245/ciro-santilli-郝海东冠状病六四事件法轮功 which has way greater reputation (archive). For example, a much smaller account with a much more common name hits: https://stackoverflow.com/users/763246/james-hill | https://web.archive.org/web/20200807072446/https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=james%20hill%20stack%20overflow
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"cirosantilli github" does not hit https://github.com/cirosantilli (archive)
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but there does appear to be a manual aspect to the block possibly. For example, Ciro’s top answer does hit, even though he has keywords in the page: https://www.baidu.com/s?&wd=dependencies%20devDependencies%20peerDependencies to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18875674/whats-the-difference-between-dependencies-devdependencies-and-peerdependencies (archive)
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Pages censored in China do hit outside of China at least however, e.g.: https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=twitter first hits https://twitter.com (archive)
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Tieba blogging
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Maps
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Google Maps is not allowed to film in China for Streetview, so Baidu has its own
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Analytics
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百度统计代码介绍
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the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC, 国家互联网信息办公室, 中央网信办) uses their analytics as of 2020
The "Google of China":
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Search engine: original business and still served at the toplevel domain
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Autocomplete suggestion for "Ciro Santilli": "cirosantilli的妻子" (Ciro Santilli’s wife and Children)
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Clearly and obviously censors pages with keywords, e.g.:
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"Ciro Santilli Stack Overflow" hits https://stackoverflow.com/users/9160762/ciro-santilli and not https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245/ciro-santilli-郝海东冠状病六四事件法轮功 which has way greater reputation (archive). For example, a much smaller account with a much more common name hits: https://stackoverflow.com/users/763246/james-hill | https://web.archive.org/web/20200807072446/https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=james%20hill%20stack%20overflow
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"cirosantilli github" does not hit https://github.com/cirosantilli (archive)
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but there does appear to be a manual aspect to the block possibly. For example, Ciro’s top answer does hit, even though he has keywords in the page: https://www.baidu.com/s?&wd=dependencies%20devDependencies%20peerDependencies to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18875674/whats-the-difference-between-dependencies-devdependencies-and-peerdependencies (archive)
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Pages censored in China do hit outside of China at least however, e.g.: https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=twitter first hits https://twitter.com (archive)
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Tieba blogging
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Maps
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Google Maps is not allowed to film in China for Streetview, so Baidu has its own
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Analytics
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百度统计代码介绍
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the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC, 国家互联网信息办公室, 中央网信办) uses their analytics as of 2020