But the Chinese authors complaints, when indexed by Google, were listed as potentially harmful in SERPs, The Inquirer reports. Baidu gave no malware warning in its SERPs for the page. After readers reported this, the newspaper of the Communist Party accused the search engine of keeping its users away from the information. Meanwhile, an unnamed paper official said the section with the complaint was maliciously blocked by Google.

Yep. Thats right. The Chinese governments newspaper accused Google of censorship. Now, we all know that the Chinese government would never censor the Internet, so clearly, we can definitely believe everything they say. Riiiight.

The facts: Google is serving a malware warning for that page. But, Google claims, that warning is handled by an algorithm. No human hands, etc. And weve seen in the past thats the way this works.

So what do you think? Is Google trying to keep its users from seeing the Chinese authors complaints? Or is it just their crappy luck that their software flagged the page and now its getting even more attention?

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