Archive for January 29th, 2006

To be specific, this is the Year of the Atomic Dog

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Happy New Year! SF Chronicle’s photos from the weekend by Frederic Larson.

Chinese Google filter only works if you can spell

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

google.cn image search for Tiananmen: Gate of Heavenly Peace.

google.cn image search for Tianenmen, Tienanmen and Tiananman: Tanks, tanks, more tanks.

Try it yourself: Compare the same image search on google.com and google.cn. Only the results for “tiananmen” are different. Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Watch, who tracks these things for a living, has posted some screenshots.

Thanks to Allan Schaffer for helping me discover this by accident.