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Google Moving Out Of China : Not What You Think
Google plays such a big role in the lives of millions that it would be hard to imagine how to cope without one of the most pervasive technology firms in the world.
Yet for millions of Google users in China, losing Google may be a looming threat despite the fact that the combined traffic to Google.com and Google.cn rivals the two biggest sites in China, QQ.com and Baidu.com.
Google.com will still be available it seems although quite a few services including Google sites, Youtube and Blogger will be totally blocked while the likes of Picasa, Docs and Groups will be “partially blocked”.
Only search, images, news, ads and Gmail are unblocked and even then, the first three are likely to be censored. Yet HufPo points out an interesting fact, that Google moved its servers to Hong Kong, the territory that Britain returned to … China back in 1997.
Could China and Google have mutually accepted to allow each other to save face and their oversized ego? Google pulls out of mainland China thereby showing that it is still sticking to its “do good, be good, don’t be evil” motto.
China on the other hand can put forward that Google is outside mainland China and decide not to censor or block the search engine services. Google will be the bigger loser of the two because the Chinese market is essential for the growth of the company.
The country will have more than 300 million internet users soon and this is set to explode as smartphones, many based on Google’s own Android platform, will flourish over the next few months.
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China Lambasts Google For Leaving China
The Chinese government has expressed its disappointment over Google’s decision to start providing uncensored search results to its users in China by redirecting them to their servers in Hong Kong.
Calling it an attempt to politicise a commercial issue, China said that the company is ‘totally wrong’ in its move to lift the censors from its search results and criticised it for breaking a written promise made by the company when it had first entered the Chinese market.
Representatives of the Chinese government said that Google’s move to close its China operations was an ‘isolated act’ by a multinational corporation, which should not affect ties between China and US.
Earlier, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, had explicitly condemned China’s strict internet censorship laws and had vowed to rally for the freedom of information over the internet.
Google, however, seems oblivious to the criticism from the Chinese government and has happily announced the initiation of its censorship-free Hong Kong website.
Announcing the move, the company’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, said in a statement that “We very much hope that the Chinese government respects our decision, though we are well aware that it could at any time block access to our services.”
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Google’s Loss In China May Help Microsoft Bing
Search engine giant Google has shut down its Google.cn website and has started redirecting users to a server in Hongkong, offering users uncensored search results, much to the disappointment and anger of the Chinese government.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has decided to strengthen its position in the Chinese market in the absence of Google and released a statement.
In it, the software giant assured Chinese users that it will continue to offer its services in the country and will adhere to the laws of the nation, but will also advocate for freedom of information over the internet when the need for it arises.
The company made it clear that it no plans to follow Google out of China and added that “We believe engagement in global markets is important, as an open and healthy Internet involves not only access to information, but access to network connectivity.”
The move by Google has not come down well with the Chinese government, as it was ‘shocked’ by the antics of the company and has criticised it for violating written promises it had made when entering the Chinese market a few years back.
Google was also accused of expanding a commercial issue into a political one, with other governments criticising China over its censorship policies.
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Google To Redirect Chinese Traffic To Hong Kong
The ongoing tussle between Google and Chinese Government over the web search censorship issue gain in intensity on Monday, with the search engine behemoth decided to cease search filtering by re-routing the Chinese traffic to its uncensored servers in Hong Kong.
This blatant move from the US-based search company in fact would thrash the Chinese Government’s attempts to control online search in the country, and henceforth could result in the search giant being frozen out altogether in the Chinese market.
Google has been threatening to pull out of the market that has the largest number of internet users, due to the continuous pressure from the state for web search filtering.
Eventually, the search giant has taken a bold move by shutting down its China-based website and redirecting traffic to servers in Hong Kong; one which wouldn’t substantially affect its bottom line.
Chinese authorities slammed the move by Google, and alleged that the company has reneged on the written promise it made about web search filtering while entering the Chinese authorities. However, Google, in response to the Chinese Government’s reaction, said that the move is ‘entirely legal’.
Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, wrote in a blog post: “It’s entirely legal and will meaningfully increase access to information for people in China. We want as many people in the world as possible to have access to our services, including users in mainland China.”
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Google Moving Out Of China In April Says Report
Search engine behemoth Google is most likely to close shop in the People’s republic of China in April, after the company’s demand for a censorship free environment was not met by the government, an article on Bloomberg has reported.
The US-based business news website, cited a report on China Business News, which claimed that a Google China sales agent had let it slip that the company plans to announce its exit on 22nd March along with the plans for its China employees.
Google, which is rumoured to quit China on April 10th, has declined to comment on the reports of a possible announcement regarding its departure from the country, which has been criticised the world over for its harsh internet censorship policies.
The company has apparently decided to leave the country following cyber attacks on its corporate infrastructure, which were found to be originating from China. Ever since then, the news of the attacks have sent the world in an uproar with dialogues on internet freedom being initiated on a daily basis.
China, however, has decided to stand its ground and duly defend itself even as prominent leaders from across the world have come together to promote freedom of speech and information on the internet.
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Google Set To Pull Out Of China Soon
According to an article published by the Wall Street Journal, Google is indeed planning to put an end to its China operations as talks with the Chinese government have failed to provide the company with a favourable working environment.
The Journal reported that some people intimate with the matter have predicted that the search engine giant will close shop in the country in a few weeks time.
Meanwhile, Chinese government officials have warned local news websites that the company will be leaving the country for good and they would be required to publish the official account of the news instead of publishing stories from other sites.
Back in January, Google had announced that the security of the company’s corporate infrastructure had been compromised by a cyber attack originating from China and had threatened to close shop in the country if it was not allowed to operate in a censorship-free environment.
It seems that the company will stay true to its words and put an end to its operations in China, in which it has a 36 percent share in the search engine market, over shadowed by Baidu search that has a 58 percent share.
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Google Argues That Chinese Censorship Was “Trade Dispute”
A Google representative has announced that the web censorship policies adopted by China can be classified as ‘Trade Dispute’ as local companies benefit when the government restricts the operations of foreign companies.
At the beginning of the year, search engine Google had reported that the company was the target of a sophisticated cyber attack, in which cyber criminals hacked into the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
Google had warned on its blog that the company will put a stop to its China operations if the Chinese government does not allow it to work in a censorship free environment as the cyber attack was traced back to China.
However, now, Bloomberg.com has reported that the Obama administration is planning to launch an official complaint against China with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) pertaining to the country’s stringent web censorship policies.
Illinois Senator Richard Durbin has announced that he plans to pass a legislation that will allow the government to prosecute US internet companies if they violate the human rights of their customers when a foreign government asks them to do so.
But the senator also added that “I recognize that the technology industry faces difficult challenges when they deal with repressive governments.”
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Google Bets On China, Advertises For More Positions
Google has apparently put on rest the soaring concerns over its looming exit from the Chinese market, as the search engine behemoth has placed advertisements for 30 positions, including software engineers, sales professionals, managers and developers, on its Chinese website.
The move can be seen as an indicator of Google intention to stay in China and it possibly hopes that its business in China, which has been in a rather miserable state since the beginning of this year, probably has some future.
Senior officials from Google, including its chief of public policy Ross LaJeunesse, have reportedly resumed talks with the Chinese government during the occasion of the country’s New Year holiday.
Back in January, Google threatened to exit from the country after it accused that the hackers based in China attacked its systems and its customers’ email accounts.
Relations between Google and Chinese government and Google are in oblivion ever since the government asked Google to comply with the country’s web censorship rules, to which the search engine giant refused to obey.
This would bring a huge sigh of relief for the professionals, particularly scientists and researchers, who have expressed their concerns over the impact Google exit would cause on the country’s research plans.
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Chinese Mimic Google, YouTube Sites Following Google’s Exit Threat
Ever since Google has announced that it might pull back from the Chinese market over recent disputes with the nation’s government on matters relating to web censorships and attacks, a couple of knock-off sites have surfaced in China bearing deliberately uncanny resemblance to the search giant’s portals.
One of them is “Goojje.com”, a spoof of the company’s own search engine website, homepage of which includes a plea to Google to not leave China.
The Chinese name of the website is in fact a pun, which means “Google’s big sister”, and the homepage of the website reads, “Sister was very happy when brother gave up the thought of leaving and stayed for sister”.
The website has reportedly been created by a female student in Guangdong, and was put together by more than 20 people across the country, as mentioned by the Chinese media.
In addition, YouTube was another Google’s site that that has been targeted, and its spoof site, dubbed as “YouTubecn.com”, was surfaced alongside Goojje.com.
The website offers real videos from YouTube, which was banned in China in 2008 after videos related to Tibetan unrest were posted on the website.
The two websites would have to face Chinese censorship and challenge pertaining to Google’s intellectual property rights, according to Xiao Qiang, director of Berkley China Internet Project.
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Chinese Government Won’t Block Google Android Phones
The Chinese government has announced that it will not impose laws on Google’s Android operating system that will restrict the use of the mobile phone operating system by China’s telecommunication services providers.
Zhu Hongren, a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said in an official statement that “As long as it complies with Chinese laws and regulations and as long as it has good cooperation with operators…their use of the system won’t be limited.”
The Chinese mobile phone market has a lot of Android based phones in circulation and are currently being distributed by the country’s three major telecom service providers, which incidentally are state-owned.
Last week, Google Inc. had announced that the company is planning to postpone the launch of two smartphones jointly developed with Samsung and Motorola that run on the Android operating system.
The official statement issued by the Chinese government indicates the fact that the government is willing to let Google Inc. operate certain parts of its business in China.
The search engine giant had earlier threatened to stop its business operations in China if the government does not allow it to run its search engine in a censorship-free environment following the highly sophisticated cyber attack on Google that had originated from China.
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