Re: Google join Yahoo, Microsoft, sohu and Baidu in China

those who fight against the tide will never win. 100 million users are only
the tip of the iceberg. five years down the road that will jump by three
folds.. perhaps this is only a conservative estimate. so yes those who play
petty politics will find themselves end up as bottom feeders.


"Bad boy" <badboy_sinland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:43d85bc9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Google has the choice of either deny Chinese the
> internet search engine service in support of anti-
> China elements, .........
> or gain access to the world's no.2 internet market
> with 110 Chinese internet users..
>
> It competitors, Yahoo and Microsoft, have jumped
> ahead into China with advertising access to over 100
> millions of Chinese internet users.
> For promoting products in China, advertisers are
> changing from Google to Yahoo and Microsoft. Until
> now, Google has no access into China.
>
> So Google has to face the reality of the bussiness world.....
> to support the US anti-China policy and anit-China NGOs......
> to lose it leadership in internet serices....or
> to support Chinese Authority in its fight against the
> anti-Chinese elements by self censorship.
>
> Google had to earn advertisers money in order to
> survive....it now join Yahoo and Microsoft.
> Support for anti-China elements be damned.
>
> Bad boy.
>
>
> http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/25/news/international/google_china.reut/index.htm
> From CNN money.com
> Google to block some searches in China
> Company says it will censor politically sensitive terms to comply with
> Beijing's policies.
> January 25, 2006: 6:32 AM EST
>
>
>
> SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Internet search giant Google Inc. will block
> politically sensitive terms on its new China site, bowing to conditions
> set by Beijing in return for access to the world's No. 2 Internet market.
>
> The voluntary concessions laid out Tuesday by Google (Research), which is
> launching a China-based search site as it officially enters the market,
> would parallel similar self-censorship already practiced there by most
> multinationals and domestic players.
>
> Homegrown giants like Sohu.com Inc. and Baidu.com Inc., along with China
> sites operated by Yahoo! Inc. (Research) and Microsoft (Research), all
> routinely block searches on politically sensitive terms such as the Falun
> Gong spiritual movement and Taiwan independence.
>
> "In order to operate from China, we have removed some content from the
> search results available on Google.cn in response to local law, regulation
> or policy," Andrew McLaughlin, Google's senior policy counsel, said in a
> statement.
>
> "While removing search results is inconsistent with Google's mission,
> providing no information (or a heavily degraded user experience that
> amounts to no information) is more inconsistent with our mission."
>
> Google, known for its "Don't do evil" mantra, is developing its China
> approach as it seeks to strike a balance between the freedom of
> information it champions and the censorship demanded by Beijing, which
> controls access to China's 111 million Internet users.
>
>


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