China may be one of the most extreme example, and Google also asserted that its service has been blocked or censored on a quarter of the country in which Google operates.
"Google products ranging from search and Blogger to YouTube and Google Docs had also been blocked in 25 of the 100 countries where we offer our services," said Rachel Whetstone, vice president for global communications and public affairs.
"In addition, we regularly receive requests the government to restrict or remove content from our property."
Whetstone said one of the global material removed from the search result is child pornography, some of which have links to copyrighted material, spam, malware, and results that contain sensitive personal information like credit card numbers.
"Specifically, we do not want to do political censorship", he stressed.
However, all felt different when visiting Blogger, YouTube, and Picasa Web Albums.
"For example, in Turkey, a video insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Ataturk, is included illegal. Two years ago, we've been told as the existing content on YouTube and has blocked the video in Turkey in violation of local law, "says Whetstone.
"A Turkish court then demands that we block it globally, and of course we refused to do so, arguing that Turkish law does not apply to outside Turkey."
According to the Open Net Initiative, 40 countries now actively censoring the Internet, and this incident certainly has jumped sharply increased in 2002 compared to the incident which is still only a little.
Even for the search results, so far Google has been adjusting to the national law in democratic countries. And one example that there is a limitation of the pro-Nazi material in Germany.
And Australia itself seems to be no test to resolve the incident that is by encouraging the government passed legislation to block access to any materials it deems unnecessary, such as chat rooms for gay teens, for example.
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