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Features

• World of Warcraft awaits China's approval to relaunch

  By Owen Fletcher | 20 July, 2009 17:31

  The relaunch of the popular online game World of Warcraft in China, where it has already been offline for six weeks, still faces an indefinite delay as it awaits government approval for its content.

• Does Google know too much about you?

  By Ian Paul | 11 July, 2009 05:22

  Do you trust Google? If you use its multitude of online services on a daily basis you might, but is that assumption wise? For some, Google is a wonderful company with a broad selection of useful online tools that make life easier, but for others Google is a looming, unregulated monster just waiting for the moment to drop the 'don't' from the company's unofficial motto, "Don't be evil."

• Google censors China porn searches

  By Dan Nystedt | 23 June, 2009 21:34

  Google engineers have put in place several measures to remove pornography from search results in China, after the government warned the company its filter was too weak.