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When searching Google Australia for [Aboriginal and Encyclopedia], there will be a disclaimer at the bottom reading “In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 1 result(s)...

If you go here: http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=aboriginal+encyc...

You will see no such warning. (At least I didn't)

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Try http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=aboriginal+encyc... , which will be more likely to get the link(s) in question. At the bottom I see that 4 links were removed.

Predicting what links will show up for who is hard, especially now that personalized results are used.

I suppose this is a question for an Australian, but what stops someone from just using google.com instead of the .com.au address? Seems like if I see that warning in the US, the filtering isn't done by origin of the request, at least on this level.

Nothing at all. Attempting to understand what our politicians and courts are doing at the moment is difficult indeed. I expect people like that to be intelligent and informed. They seem to be lacking in both with re. to the internet.

Thanks for giving the specific link to the Australian site for Google, which now shows the search you linked to turning up lots of coverage of the controversy mentioned in the submitted article. That too is a better outcome than having someone blunder on a site not meant to have serious information when performing a search that might be expected to turn up reliable information.

This is the actual Chilling Effects page:

http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=17460

It actually has very little information...

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