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Weekly Roundup for Devils’ Workshop: 17th May- 23rd May
Google shows how often governments request them to censor
No More Access to Old Layout of Google Search

Weekly Roundup for Devils’ Workshop: 17th May- 23rd May

Posted: 23 May 2010 07:00 AM PDT

Last week we did experiment with the new layout of Devils' Workshop and this week we had makeover of Facebooknol. Facebooknol is one of the blog of rtBlog network where you can read all Facebook related post, tips and tricks and latest updates. Do share your views about the new theme of Facebooknol.

This week was interesting regarding internet privacy and internet censorship, there were lots of issues with Facebook and tricks and hacks for same. If you missed any of the updates about internet privacy or censorship, check out the recap of all the post published this week on Devils' Workshop:

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Google shows how often governments request them to censor

Posted: 23 May 2010 03:10 AM PDT

I am sure many of you know about Twitter and Facebook being banned in Pakistan and if I take you back much further in the past there have been instances of China asking Google to censor the internet. Everytime there is offensive material a government does not always block the access to it but ask the website owners to remove content.

Google often gets many requests from governments for either data to be shared or removal requests. Google with its usual ‘rebellious’ yet ‘mature’ attitude has published statistics of government requests from around the world.

The stats are quite interesting. Brazil tops both lists of 'Data requests' and 'Removal Requests'
India comes 4th with 1166 data requests over the last part of 2009. India comes 3rd in with 142 requests of removal of data.
What is interesting that countries like Germany, UK and US are also the top five of both lists.

There might be a temptation to look at this data and see think that the countries with the highest number of requests have highest amount of restrictions to net freedom.

One interesting name missing from this list is China. The reason is China considers requests for censorship as state secrets and hence its illegal to show the numbers for Google.

So what do you think about internet censorship? I am personally against it but would love to read your views through your comments.

Link: Government Requests to Google

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No More Access to Old Layout of Google Search

Posted: 22 May 2010 11:39 PM PDT

Few days back Google changed its old layout to make search more easy and user-friendly. But Google fans find some or other way out to use Old layout of Google, which we shared with you. You just need to use a link, to get the old layout of Google Search.

Link: Old Layout Link

But the people who used to prefer to use the old layout of Google Search, won't able to access this link anymore to get old Google Layout. Many Google fans are disappointed with this step of Google but I guess Google want to maintain the uniformity.

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No matter what Google is up to, but one is thing is sure that there might be some way to get the old layout of Google back may be some other URL, Extension or Add-on.

Also Read: Google goes in for the minimalist look

If you are aware of any such tool to get the old layout of Google, do share with us. It might be useful for all the fans of Google who prefer to use Old Layout for Google Search.

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