Thursday, February 09, 2006
UPDATE: Google Image Search in China and /China
In my previous blog post, Google Image Search in China and /China, users of google.cn could merely capitalize the T in Tiananmen to see the same images the rest of the world sees when they search for Tiananmen images. Now this loophole has been blocked.
Fortunately, human language is generative. There are lots of synonyms, homophones, neologisms, code words and other potential work arounds. Can google.cn block all of them without developing mind-reading technology?
Fortunately, human language is generative. There are lots of synonyms, homophones, neologisms, code words and other potential work arounds. Can google.cn block all of them without developing mind-reading technology?
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it took them over a week between it hitting IP and the updated block going in.
In contrast, how long does it take google to repond to new tricks by spammers?
In contrast, how long does it take google to repond to new tricks by spammers?
Its not just laguage, since the search is based on strings, presumably iananmen, ienanmen, ienan, anmen tianen and so firth will also produce results. The only way China could stop it would be to reject every string that overlaps every spelling of the word. Then, of course, it would produce no images for anyone.
Exactly! I watched a documentary about the military dictatorship in Brazil recently, and Chico Buarque (think Bob Dylan as an equivalent) was describing the way that songwriters and journalists got around the censororious colonels--who, like keyword search, tend to be, if not dumm, then at least not well-versed in the semantics of irony.
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