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Google Conforms to Chinese Censorship

Discussion in 'Google' started by Will.Spencer, Sep 25, 2004.

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    Google Conforms to Chinese Censorship

    SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s recently launched news service in China doesn't display results from Web sites blocked by that country's authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to "do no evil."

    Dynamic Internet Technology Inc., a research firm striving to defeat online censorship, conducted tests that found Google omits results from the government-banned sites if search requests are made through computers connecting to the Internet in China.

    Steered by an identical search request, computers with a United States connection retrieved results from the sites blocked by China.

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    Will.Spencer, Sep 25, 2004 IP
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    I think people are really blowing things out of proportion. google isn't censoring things, china's government is.

    what good would it do to display results to users in china that they can't even reach? of course they filter things out- not to "be evil"- but just to give users in china a better experience.
     
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    When in Rome I guess.

    Really, what choice do they have? If they dont comply, they too will be banned and make nothing ($$$) - being public now, they ahve a responsibility to make as much as they can wherever they can.
     
    joeychgo, Sep 25, 2004 IP
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    Agreed. China is the one blocking certain content which might provoke a revolution :D
     
    PRBot.Com, Sep 25, 2004 IP
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    >which might provoke a revolution
    It might help if they had access to the materials the Chinese gov. is banning

    And on to the real question that I see here... We have all said for so long that Google's way of doing things is that they solve problems mathematically/algorithmically and they want their business to be pure science. This appears to be a deviation from that philosophy. What do they do? Apply a list of banned words/domains to the SERPs before displaying the content? Some of you have said that G is not banning, the Chinese gov is. Well, I say they both are. Or maybe G is doing this to gain trust and then later on they will let "banned" materials slip through :D

    BTW, read the whole article if you want http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/040925/google_china_3.html
     
    exam, Sep 26, 2004 IP