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  • Google accused of profiting from child porn

    Google has made child pornography an "obscenely profitable and integral part" of its business and must be stopped, a new lawsuit claims.

  • Google fixes China search bugs

    A day after Google's buggy censorship of sites for Chinese-users was revealed, the search giant responded by fixing its filters so topics such as beer and jokes are no longer deleted.

  • What Google censors in China

    Google's new China search engine not only censors many Web sites that question the Chinese government, but it goes further than similar services from Microsoft and Yahoo by targeting teen pregnancy, homosexuality, dating, beer and jokes.

  • Google fixes glitch that unleashed flood of porn

    A technology glitch temporarily turned Google's new personal listings service, Google Base, into a vast, virtual red-light district earlier this week.

  • Google's chastity belt too tight

    Despite claims of "advanced proprietary technology," the search giant's opt-in porn filter proves no better than the primitive tools of the last decade, blocking many harmless sites.

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