Beginning Wednesday and continuing today, Chinese Internet users have discovered [1] that Google searches containing the Chinese characters for the surnames of China's top leaders (ie. the ‘hu’ [jintao] in carrot, ‘huluobo’) are resulting in a reset connection to the website. Isaac Mao has made a screencast [2] showing how this works.
China: Characters in leaders’ names made sensitive search terms on Google
· Written by John Kennedy
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