Five facts about Google's content filtering

1. New Delhi: Less than a week after a similar move by micro-blogging site Twitter, Internet major google has unveiled plans to make content on its blogger platfrom selectively available, depanding on the top five facts you should know on google's move:
   
   
   1. What is it? Google has announced it will start redirecting visitors from certain countries to country specific website. For example, Indian visitors to blogname.blogspot.com may be redirected to blogname.blogspot.in
   
   
   2. Why? This can be seen as a direct response to request from government across the world urging Google to filter content they deem objectonable. Having this redirection in place would allow Google to stop people from a particular country accessing specific websites without impacting users in other countries.
   
   
   3. How does it work? For example, it the Indian government finds the content at blogname.blogspot.com/post.html objectionable, it may approach Google and have it blocked for access via the blogname.blogspot.in domain. With all traffic coming from india automatically redirected, this means even if someone from India tries to visit directly, they will not able to see the blocked content(subject to the workarounds mentioned below).
   
   
   4. what services are impacted? While all details are't available yet, it seems this 'initiative' is limited to Google's blogging platfrom. other services like Orkut or Google Plus do not seem imacted at this stage, though that might change at a later date. Also,website with a custom URL.e.g.www.mvblog.com Hosted using the Blogger patfrom will remain unaffected.
   
   
   5. Workarounds: Visitos can see the US version of any blog by visiting blogname.blogspot.in/ncr. NCR stabd for No Country Redirect and san be used across all google properties to view the US version of the site instead of local one.