Imitation search engine and video site emerge amid standoff between China and real Google over censorshipImitation websites of both Google and YouTube have emerged in China as the country faces off against the real Google over its local operations.YouTubecn.com offers videos from the real YouTube, which is owned by Google and blocked in China. The [...]
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry finds the ruling by a Beijing court clearing China’s largest search engine of piracy ‘extremely disappointing’
From the Reuters, via wired.com:
A Google knock-off has surfaced in China to compete with the world’s largest search engine, while at the same time pleading with it to stay in the country despite censorship and hacking allegations.
Adding to China’…
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Even if Google’s stand against censorship leads it to close its search engine in China, the company still hopes to maintain other key operations in the world’s most populous Internet market.
‘We want to stay in the Chinese market, we just don’t want to filter our search results any more’, says Google vice-presidentDavid Drummond has had a major part to play in the latest stand-off between Google and China. And at the DLD conference in Munich Drummond, the company’s vice-president and chief legal officer, explained what [...]
Microsoft founder plays down Beijing’s attempts to stifle dissent on the internet as ‘very limited’After pouring billions of dollars into the global fight against malaria and rebranding Microsoft in a more cuddly, human way, Bill Gates had just about shaken off accusations that he represented all that was unappealing about aggressive American capitalism.But today his [...]
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – China’s leading search engine Baidu appeared to have been hacked again on Friday last week, as tensions between Beijing and Washington remained high over Internet freedom.
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, reiterated the company’s intention to remain in the China market, despite the recent declaration that they would rather shut down their China-based search engine than censor the site. From the Financial Times:
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An article in the New York Times looks at the Chinese government’s reaction to Google’s decision last week to no longer censor its Chinese search engine:
Officials were caught off guard by Google’s move, and they want to avoid the issue
One week after the company’s Chinese search engine website was apparently hacked, Baidu.com’s chief technology [...]