Bing censors simplified Chinese characters world-wide, not just in mainland China! – Tech-Web
kristof.blogs.nytimes.com — If you search a term on Bing that is politically sensitive in China, in English the results are legitimate. Search “Tiananmen” and you’ll find out about the army firing on pro-democracy protesters in 1989. Search Dalai Lama, Falun Gong and you also get credible results. Conduct the search in traditional Chinese characters (the kind used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) and on the whole you still get complete results. But conduct the search with the simplified characters used in mainland China, then you get sanitized results. This is especially true of image searches.
Doesn't it seem pretty normal that Chinese language responses would be different from English ones or am I totally missing the point? I'm now curious as to how much variance there is if you search for the same thing in simplified and traditional characters.
Yeah it does make sense that there would be a variance, but Microsoft admitted that is censoring searches done by language rather than by region. Bing is actually a very good search engine for images, so my guess is why the censoring is even more apparent there.
Yeah, definitely a big difference between different search results and censored search results. One more reason not to bother with yet another M$ product.