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. Just a little background for you, Qihoo 360 Technology Co.is...
Unfortunately, most social media sites and other popular sites exclude Baidu’s spiders due to the Chinese internet censorship. Their largest Chinese search engine, Baidu, has more than 407 million users, with around 78 percent share of the total...
Conflating Internet censorship and Google’s biggest competitors is a bit lazy, and it makes Brin seem wistful and out of touch. Google had launched its search engine in China in 2006 and had censored search results for four years to comply with 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.
Not many comments have been made regarding how Chinese censorship laws will affect what results Bing delivers. Censorship was a major issue with Google's approach to China. The Chinese Internet market has grown by double-digit percentages over 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...
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. Web portals remain the overwhelming way that Chinese internet users spend...
Google China's share of the Chinese search advertising market in Q4 rose for the first time since the company threatened to leave the country early last year after a cyber attack and censorship battles.
Google China's share of the Chinese search advertising market in Q4 rose for the first time since the company threatened to leave the country early last year after a cyber attack and censorship battles.
During a week when censorship of WikiLeaks' publishing of US government cables is being discussed and people suggest the founder Julian Assange be killed, UNESCO announced the US will host World Press Freedom Day next year.
Freedom of speech and press behavior: This may be censorship or it may be a cultural dislike of something. When someone tells you that there are 400 million Chinese online or that more than a billion people live in India, that can be a captivating...
This came in the wake of January threats that Google would pull out of China due to censorship and internet security concerns. Now, Bloomberg is reporting China Business News is reporting that an unnamed Chinese sales rep for Google spilled the...
Wall Street also may be skittish on Chinese Internet companies as Google's recent ultimatum has raised serious questions on censorship and Internet security issues as it relates to the Chinese government.
As we learned in the last post, China says that the United States' accusations of Internet censorship are baseless. If you hire "Internet police" who erase comments - that's censorship. If you require computers sold in your country to be shipped...
Earlier this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke out against Chinese Internet censorship at a speech she gave at The Newseum in Washington, DC. They also said that the accusations of censorship hurt U.S.China ties.
This topic originally focused on big business and weighty moral issues like Internet censorship, but now, everyday computer users have been thrown into the mix, with the repercussions of the attack putting them at risk.
The search giant remains in second place to Baidu, and has faced a tough road battling censorship demands by Chinese authorities. Kai-Fu Lee has resigned as Google Vice President and President of Google Greater China to work with Chinese start-ups...
As Britain's Telegraph reports, Google established the localized search engine Google.cn four years ago, agreeing to filter results based on government censorship restrictions and content requirements, but Chinese officials say that has not been...
Just because the search engines had to lie down and take the censorship doesn't mean Google's headquarters were the right place to protest. Then again, anonymously threatening me for writing about my opinion in last week's column seems a bit...
