Since 2010 the company has been at odds with the country's government over its co-called Great Firewall and censorship policies. The publication marks the latest clash between China and Google. China China hits Google with total block on its...
The firm ceased issuing the warnings in early December, according to a report from Chinese censorship monitoring group Greatfire.org, and has removed supporting information from its about pages. What could be the reason for Google to switch off...
In the comparison, they find that searches on terms such as the “Tiananmen Square Incident” netted uncensored results without censorship notices where Baidu restricted the search results. Launched August 16, Qihoo Search was the latest search...
The Baidu scandal points to the larger concern of online censorship in China. Baidu has a history of censorship scandals. The company was sued for governmental censorship last year. Baidu is currently China's most used web search service.
Google recently launched an anti-censorship tool for Chinese search users, announcing the update on their Inside Search blog while carefully dancing around any direct mention of government censorship.
Unfortunately, most social media sites and other popular sites exclude Baidu’s spiders due to the Chinese internet censorship. With more than 500 million Internet users, China is by far the world’s largest online market.
Conflating Internet censorship and Google’s biggest competitors is a bit lazy, and it makes Brin seem wistful and out of touch. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has warned against the growing number of restrictions on the Internet arising from...
The apparent inclusion of search blocking, widely regarded as Internet censorship. Smith said in response to the White House’s show of opposition to the bill in its current form, "It is not censorship to enforce the law against foreign thieves.
The dedication to a specific ethical code that refuses the censorship of the Chinese government makes full web searching impossible. It’s unlikely that the Chinese government will pay attention to a deal-finding service, and even if they did, the...
In addition to self-censorship requirements from the Chinese government (which required Google to block gambling sites, pornography, and any content deemed critical of the communist government), China moved to block access to YouTube in 2009.
As most people already know, Google moved its search engine off of the mainland last year, primarily because it couldn’t agree to the Chinese government’s policy of censorship. Meanwhile, Google, which makes up for most of the English searches...
Google has been in decline since redirecting its searches to Hong Kong after censorship battles and with the government following Gmail hacking accusations. Google’s share of China’s 4.3 billion yuan ($665.9 milllion) search market dropped once...
Censorship was a major issue with Google's approach to China. Not many comments have been made regarding how Chinese censorship laws will affect what results Bing delivers. Whilst Google has come and gone in China, they still enjoy an 11% share of...
This continues a long trend of censorship of both Google and social properties. Google+, the new Google social network, may already be banned or slowed in China. The Fate of Google+ in China When Google+ was initially released, ping tests on the...
While Google doesn't function in China due to censorship concerns and the fear that Google accounts may be abused to compromise the efforts of human rights activists, Chinese users who visit the Google site are still directed to the Hong Kong...
Facebook has overcome numerous barriers, including censorship concerns in both Syria and Iran, to spread into developing countries. Yes, the blue is Facebook, and yes, basically the entire planet – except for China, Russia, Brazil, and a few...
Google actually withdrew after censorship debates in early 2010, and the recent Gmail hacking attempts has prompted more tension between Google and the Chinese government. While internet use in China continues to grow, Mainland China and its...
Baidu, China sued in U.S.for Internet censorship - ReutersEight New Yorkers sue Baidu for censoring searches in the U.S, claiming the company is acting as an agent of a foreign state to suppress free speech, which violates the First Amendment.
Ironically, Google is probably if anything more concerned than the Chinese about losing its own "face" by going back in and accepting Chinese rules on areas such as censorship. It's a well known and established fact that Google's withdrawal from...
Guess we'll see if that's true for Google in China this year, a year after suffering a cyber attack, censorship battles, disputes with ad resellers, and lost search market share to China's top search engine Baidu.
