Stephen Hawking at an event in Cambridge, England in 2016 (left) and Stan Lee at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood in 2017. (Pictures: AFP Photo/EPA-EFE) Stephen Hawking at an event in Cambridge, England in 2016 (left) and Stan Lee at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood in 2017. (Pictures: AFP Photo/EPA-EFE)
Stephen Hawking at an event in Cambridge, England in 2016 (left) and Stan Lee at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood in 2017. (Pictures: AFP Photo/EPA-EFE)
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The Great Firewall isn’t stopping Chinese netizens from searching for the same things as Western web surfers

The World Cup, Royal Wedding and concubines topped searches on both Baidu and Google, but skr is only big in China

Topic |   Baidu
Karen Chiu
Karen Chiu

Updated: 8:48am, 20 Sep, 2019

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Stephen Hawking at an event in Cambridge, England in 2016 (left) and Stan Lee at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood in 2017. (Pictures: AFP Photo/EPA-EFE) Stephen Hawking at an event in Cambridge, England in 2016 (left) and Stan Lee at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood in 2017. (Pictures: AFP Photo/EPA-EFE)
Stephen Hawking at an event in Cambridge, England in 2016 (left) and Stan Lee at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood in 2017. (Pictures: AFP Photo/EPA-EFE)
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