What content does Google censor outside China?

Outside China, Google blocks only websites with child abuse images and certain values from its search of ranges of numbers. The latter restriction, according to Google’s worldwide policy counsel Andrew McLaughlin, tackles identity thieves using the search engine to trawl the web for credit card and government identification numbers, such as US social security numbers. It is still possible to search for individual numbers within these ranges, so owners can check these are not online.