The Chinese government employs what is called the Great Firewall of China, and controls its citizens' use of the internet with a firm hand. Google has stopped warning Chinese Internet users that some of the words they might search for could see...
As part of Google’s goal to roll out localized YouTube sites internationally, the video sharing site has launched in Indonesia targeting 237 million citizens in the country in June. Because of the huge market potential, Chinese search giant Baidu...
Perhaps to assure that the misinformation doesn't gain a foothold, Chinese authorities are also making sure that none of its citizens ever get a chance to see the information. Authorities have urged citizens to remain calm and disregard any...
Just ask the citizens of Egypt, where social networks played a major role in their recent revolution. One key to the success of Chinese social media sites like Kaixin001 and Xing is the Golden Shield Project enforced by the Chinese government.
The Chinese government does not want its citizens watching dissident Liu Xiaobo get his Nobel Peace Prize today, so they have blocked news sites such as CNN, BBC and the Norwegian state broadcaster NRK.
The Chinese government does not want its citizens watching dissident Liu Xiaobo get his Nobel Peace Prize today, so they have blocked news sites such as CNN, BBC and the Norwegian state broadcaster NRK.
The store has amazing name recognition with senior citizens due to this previous television advertising, but had almost non-existent recognition with younger generations. I asserted, backed by extensive keyword research, my strong belief that...
According to various reports quoting a company statement, Baidu will fill the 30 software engineers positions by participating in a job fair on July 10 and the newly hires "could be Chinese, people from Taiwan or Hong Kong, or citizens of any...
However, B2B has been Google's strong point and analytic-sensitive B2B advertisers may be frustrated with duplicate content issues (simplified and Cantonese versions of their sites) and trying to target two very different audiences (Hong Kong...
The caveat at the bottom of that post - where Google mentions wanting to keep employees in the country (offering the hope that China may want to have some of its citizens working there) but in areas unrelated to the search decision almost shows...
Just don't expect them to be available for viewing by Chinese citizens. As we learned in the last post, China says that the United States' accusations of Internet censorship are baseless. Perhaps, China just needs a little lesson in what censorship...
Deep down, I think many of us hoped that China would open the Internet to its citizens. The Foreign Ministry of China has reiterated their policy that Internet companies are welcome to operate but most do so within the confines of Chinese law.
Fox News stated, "The outages occurred after China accused the Internet behemoth of spreading pornography among its citizens. Seems the Chinese government used the "Great Firewall" to block Google, YouTube and Gmail for a couple of days this week...
She is currently the CEO of Citizens Communications. Google Earth Catches Chinese Sub, May Hurt With China RelationsGoogle, like the internet in general, has a delicate relationship with the Chinese government, and this latest blunder will impact...
Our hope is that our mix of measures, though far from our ideal, would accomplish more for Chinese citizens? "Brin says Google compromised principles" from the Associated Press covers Google cofounder Sergey Brin telling reporters yesterday that...
The Internet has helped transform the way business is done, advanced consumer cultures, increased competition, allowed entrepreneurship to flourish, and provided citizens with more freedom in how they live, work, exchange ideas and make choices.
China's government has an extensive Internet filtering process in place that controls which overseas Web sites its citizens can access. With that filtering as a guide, foreign companies are expected to build their own lists of Web sites to...
Microsoft doesn't agree with these restrictions, but we're required to follow them in order to provide services to Chinese citizens. Chinese target Web's 'prohibited language' from the Associated Press looks at how those in China wishing to blog...
In summary, the Chinese government appears to be focusing on filtering Google results and cache listings for its citizens and ignoring Yahoo and Gigablast. ========================= In This Issue Search Engine Watch News + Search Engine Strategies...
In summary, the Chinese government appears to be focusing on filtering Google results and cache listings for its citizens and ignoring Yahoo and Gigablast. Chinese Internet media firm Sohu.com has unveiled its new "Search Dog" search engine.
