By Will Sturgeon, 16 September 2002 09:52
NEWS Google users in China were able to access the service this weekend for the first time in two weeks - but many will already have noticed it's not what it used to be. While the Chinese government appeared to have relaxed its stance on the search engine, which had been blocked, along with rival search engine AltaVista, for a fortnight, it seems Google has only been allowed to resurface in censored form. Searches which might be deemed as being 'politically sensitive' - such as a search for outlawed spiritual movement Falun Gong are still blocked. Other searches which still return no results, due to government censorship, include President Jiang Zemin or his likely successor, Hu Jintao, and Tibet. The reason for the crackdown in believed to be concern about political unrest in the run up to November's Communist Party congress.
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