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highwaystar101 on 18 April 2009

OK, so I'm writing a report on the future of IPTV (TV over the internet) for university. One area I dcecided to cover was IPTV and censorship. Something like this benefits from looking at a few news sources first. So I went onto google news and I type in 'China', 'IPTV' and 'censorship'...

Look how many results I got...

http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=china%20IPTV%20censorship&hl=en&ned=uk&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn

 

That's right, one. One result from the whole thing. I mean the words China IPTV censorship has to dredge up thousands of results. I mean what about that thing they had with youtube a few months back? I read thousands of stories about that. It seems a bit odd to me.



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Tyrannical on 18 April 2009

Yes, but since IPTV uses the internet, it falls under internet censorship.



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The Ghost of RubangB on 18 April 2009

Whoa, if you take the word China out, you actually get zero results instead of one.

Try searching Google instead of Google News. That's got 37,700 results.

That's really weird though.



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highwaystar101 on 18 April 2009

@ RubangB - haha, no results so it does... hmm. Regular google then. I guessed that thousands of news articles would have had those three words. Ah well, regular google.