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Certainly not what I expected.

To try it yourself, type in Google.cn in your browser address and search for whatever. Search for "Porn" and get 24,300,000 links, do it in the US edition and you get 109,000,000 links. Likewise "Chinese Torture" yields 2,420,000 links, while the US edition is 13,200,000 links.

On the other hand, innocuous sounding "Boiling Eggs" gets you 28,500 entries in China but 56,200 here. Unless the Chinese Government does nasty, evil things to your eggs, it is a bit mysterious why there would be half as many entries in China for this. However much I may dislike what Google is doing in China, I am completely impressed with the filtering method they have used to cull 4.5 billion pages off the Chinese search.

CNET News.com discovered "Google's new China search engine not only censors many Web sites that question the Chinese government, but it goes further than similar services from Microsoft and Yahoo by targeting teen pregnancy, homosexuality, dating, beer and jokes.

In addition, CNET News.com has found that contrary to Google co-founder Sergey Brin's promise to inform users when their search results are censored, the company frequently filters out sites without revealing it. "

Check out what is deleted and what is not in the Rest of the Story

UPDATE: Jan 13 2010

Seems Google has had enough of China's efforts at censorship and may exit China:

The Official Google Blog, A new approach to China

In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident--albeit a significant one--was something quite different.

First, this attack was not just on Google. As part of our investigation we have discovered that at least twenty other large companies from a wide range of businesses--including the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors--have been similarly targeted. We are currently in the process of notifying those companies, and we are also working with the relevant U.S. authorities.

Second, we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.

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We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we made clear that "we will carefully monitor conditions in China, including new laws and other restrictions on our services. If we determine that we are unable to achieve the objectives outlined we will not hesitate to reconsider our approach to China."

These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.