Hong Kong protest song tops overseas Google search results, despite efforts to elevate China national anthem in local rankings

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Recent efforts by Hong Kong authorities to ensure China’s national anthem was the top result in Google searches have failed to pay off in other countries, as links including one to a protest s

have failed to pay off in other countries, as links including one to a protest song were still found to have trumped other entries.

The song was ranked second for the same search in other places, including New York, London and Taiwan, where the top entry was another Wikipedia page about the history of Hong Kong’s anthems with reference to China’s March of the Volunteers and Britain’s God Save the King. The Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau’s newly updated webpage providing information about March of the Volunteers, including links for audio and video downloads, was placed below them in all of these locations.The website appears at the top of searches in Hong Kong since its revamp. It previously only referred internet users to a central government site offering the files.

Authorities earlier told SCMP they had not paid Google to change the rank of its website but had optimised relevant webpages to boost their rankings.

 

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Is this even news worthy? Or does Western media have a quota of pro west bs they need to hit everyday? Maybe more pple in Hong Kong use baidu then Google in which case the results ain't representative ?

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