Revisiting Google Censorship In Germany & France: "Revisiting Google Censorship In Germany & France

Google Blogoscope updates sites previously identified as censored by Google in Germany and France in its Sites Google Censors post. You can see how many pages are shown in Google.com then compare to what's isn't showing at Google Germany or Google France.

The sites are all removed due to national laws in those countries, I believe. Google Blogoscope asks for Google to tell people when material has been removed, in the way they do for copyright reasons. John Battelle and I both asked for the same thing, in the past.

For John's views, check out Google News And China. From me, Got To Censor Search Listings? Why Not Disclose? explains how Google disclosure of copyright-driven removals in the US works, how no disclosure of spam removals is noted and how Google and all search engines have removed material for various reasons and should come up with a way to identify this. My China Blocks Google News -- So Bring On The Disclosure also coves the issue."

Well, it was about to come about soon, i thinik it's sad of Google to not add a disclosure policy saying who or why stuff is being removed. Well, seeing as most of the UK's international Internet access is fed through GCHQ (spy center for America - I mean the UK), soon pages from international sources will just have 404 errors or redirects to other sources.