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Google Censorship refers to the purposeful practice adopted by the Google search engine to suppress lists of web sites from its search results based on its political views and the lobbying effort of pressure groups.

Google has also been accused of manipulating search results to favor its own coporate ambitions and interests.

Censorship of search results critical of the Chinese government

In early 2006 Google chinese search page Google.cn was discovered to censor the search resulst to satisfy the requests of the Chinese government.

Censorship of search results critical of Radical Islam

In early 2006 Google removed search results related to the news site New Media Journal from its News search engine because Muslims complained about some anti-Islam articles.

Examples of sites banned by google:

Examples of pages censored by google:

Censorship of search results critical of Scientology

In 2002 Google was found to have censored websites that provided critical information about Scientology. ,

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