Since 2010 the company has been at odds with the country's government over its co-called Great Firewall and censorship policies. The Chinese Ministry of Technology has accused Google of unfairly discriminating against local firms by hindering the...
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. Chinese IT expert Wu Hongsheng says that 360 Search has...
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.
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...
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. With an index built around the Chinese language, those English searches...
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. 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. People in China tend toward web portals over social sites, and the social sites that are present are adapated to the trends of Chinese users; even if completely banned...
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. While sites from Google, Yahoo, and Bing may be able to get products into...
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. Google messed this up somewhat with its rather clumsy move from China...
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.
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.
When Google pulled out of China last year over issues of censorship and the hacking of Gmail accounts, they lost global market share. Using the recent blocking of information about the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo who...
Due to the high-profile censorship conflict between Google and the Chinese government early this year, the study recommends marketers to monitor up-and-coming search players such as SOSO and Sogou that are eyeing Google's traffic and diminishing...
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.
We want as many people in the world as possible to have access to our services, including users in mainland China, yet the Chinese government has been crystal clear throughout our discussions that self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal...
