Sunday, September 29, 2002

New Google News
Google has launched a news searching service. Although still in beta form, it pools over 4000 news sources, ranking them for freshness, credibility and popularity. Because ordinary webpages don't get into any search engine database very fast, this sort of ability to search for fresh news is highly useful. Mission executives needing the latest international news will appreciate this service.
Chinese Internet Censorship Extended to E-mails
As e-mails containing certain keywords have begun to bounce back to Chinese senders, activists have realized that Chinese government capabilities to restrict access to information on the Internet are considerably greater than they had previously assumed possible and represent a significant violation of personal privacy, reports a Hong Kong daily.