I believe this Chinese underage gynmast article is from the London Times via Fox news…
A determined U.S. computer expert has delved into cached pages on the Internet to unearth Chinese official documents showing a gymnast who took gold in the uneven bars competition, edging the U.S.’s Nastia Liukin, may indeed be underage.
I’d say this isn’t too surprising. Unfortunately, this isn’t either…
First he simply tried Google, only to find that an official listing by the Chinese sports administration that had given her age could no longer be accessed. Then he tried the Google cache, only to find that He’s name had been removed.
Finally, he tried the cache of Chinese search engine Baidu. There, he found that Baidu lists two spreadsheets in He’s name, both giving her date of birth as January 1, 1994 — making her 14 years and 220 days old and too young to compete at the Beijing games.
What is it with google? Really makes one believe that their software that takes down blogs has a political bias. I’m sure Baidu will be improving their ability to flush their cache, perhaps google can give them some lessons?
