An interesting article was posted at /. today. The article suggested that Google Images might be blocking images from Abu Ghraib incident, whereas its competitors show the images. Later an update was posted, according to which Sergey, the co-founder of Google, admitted that Google wasn’t censoring the image but the image index is not updated so frequently.

In short, There is no censorship here. We are embarassed that our image index is not updated as frequently as it should be. Expect a refresh in the near future.

A few days back there was another controversy about Google News’ Censorship for Chinese. The article at newscientist says:

The internet’s most popular search engine Google has been accused of supporting Chinese internet controls by omitting contentious news stories from search results in China.

and google replies:

“In order to create the best possible news search experience for our users, we sometimes decide not to include some sites, for a variety of reasons,” says a statement issued by the company. “These sources were not included because their sites are inaccessible.”

Am still wondering if Google is being used by Chinese government to censor the content they want to censor?
Chinese government has been censoring content provided on the Internet.

Google’s inability to uptade their Image index as frequent as their competitor can give them a bad name and may reflect on the wall street tomorrow (or later). It dropped about 8.3% on friday. $167.75 was the last trade, lets see how does it react tomorrow? (today in 10 minutes)

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