Scottish bazillionaire Brian Souter made headlines this week when he pointedly accused Google of censoring him because his site dropped in the SERPs. Timing and Bite of the Evil Panda Said Sir Brian, “It’s not Google’s place to decide which sites...
Censoring is evil so needs to be avoided at all circumstances Censoring may not be great but it's the lesser of two evils In deciding whether the practice is "evil," according to Google's "don't be evil" motto, Lenssen points to two schools of...
Google might reverse its policy of censoring on behalf of the Chinese government. Not Be Evil, Wired News solutions, Hotbar to May 2006 Search News Recap Posted The latest edition of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now online...
"Brin says Google compromised principles" from the Associated Press covers Google cofounder Sergey Brin telling reporters yesterday that it's possible Google might reverse its policy of censoring on behalf of the Chinese government.
As for the censoring, more details already hinted at before on how Google itself has to do the Chinese government's dirty work. After all, if "Don't Be Evil" Google won't, who will? China White points to an excellent New York Times Magazine piece,
Great Wall Against Google And AltaVista: It really was China censoring Censoring In China: The irony. More Evil Evil? The Big Brother Nomination: Is the Do No Evil company really evil in terms of spying on us?
Google even created an evil scale to decide just how bad censoring would be. Google's apparently not feeling bad about censoring for China anymore. Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from...
Google even created an evil scale to decide just how bad censoring would be. Google's apparently not feeling bad about censoring for China anymore. It doesn't feel arrogant having a lobbying firm to fight for its interests, such as ironically...
Censoring In China Censors Itself For China & Paid Exclusion As Being Evil The fracas also raises questions on whether Google will find that it can no longer even disclose that censorship is happening, something that is the company's best defense...
CEO on censoring: 'We did an evil scale'" from InfoWorld has Google CEO Eric Schmidt explaining at the Davos World Economic Forum that Google spent over a year debating what to do on China, including creating an "evil scale" to help with the...
Declan McCullagh posts an update to his great earlier story looking at how Google is censoring results at China. That's because rather than just censoring what China is telling them to block, Google's actively coming up with its own list.
So was Google censoring or just acting to protect the user experience? China was censoring Google without Google helping? It's flat out saying that the Chinese government wants it to do censoring in news search, web search and other areas and...
