rockypath

中国人的勝利，把美資集團趕跑！
不用谷歌，用百度囉！
kingsway 發表於 2010-1-13 02:09

It could be true. Just like eBay is losing to 淘寶網 in China.

Quest

7# kipposhi


Standard Communist Chinese propaganda?

Why bother? *snickers*

myversa

from google blog:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

Catpiano

China likes it's own search engine ...  own facebook .. own ebay .. etc ..

sheep

14# Catpiano

關唔關唔識打英文事？
好似我咁 唔識打中文
唔上百度

rockypath

from google blog:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
myversa 發表於 2010-1-13 09:49

Thanks for sharing. I cannot understand why Google wants to make this issue public before it makes a decision and it is still going to talk (negotiate) with the Chinese government. Is its purpose to put pressure on the Chinese government publicly so that it can have more power in the negotiation?

I don't think this tactic will work and it could instead put Google in a more difficult situation in my opinion. I don't think the Chinese government will back down on this especially after making this issue public.

Lik

Kudos to Google for exercising corporate responsibility. Just goes to show that money isn't everything in this world, even when it comes to business.

Of course, I'm sure the fact that Google couldn't crack the stranglehold Baidu has on the Chinese market has something to do with this as well.

-Lik
Lik 發表於 2010-1-12 22:44

I should add that even though Google appears to be exercising its corporate conscious in this particular incident, they are far from the righteous image that they are trying to project. The Google (digital) Books project, in particular, ran into some major oppositions in Europe and in China. And especially in China, Google had to drop their scanned copies of tons of Chinese books and issue a public apology because of infringement and copyright issues. The last I read about this, some Mainland Chinese writers guild / association was looking to sue Google for damages as well.

This is certainly yet another setback for the Big G, but I dunno if it is enough cause or even a significant enough factor that adds to their Chinese market withdrawal plans.

-Lik

peter236

Google is just bluffing here. They all know that Chinese people can just install a VPN software or something like that to allow them to surf any websites censored by the firewall.
So google is embarrassing themselves here. They are either adimitting they were wrong to censor certain searches before, or they are wrong now by removing those censor, LOL.

daimo

the whole fuzz is just to get Google some edge in terms of market differentiation compared to Baidu.

Their goal? if you go to google you can search for something Baidu can't.  (e.g. porn)

internet/computer spying activities happen all the time between all countries.  give me a break ...

now don't tell me they don't want to sell the Google phone in China ...

rockypath

now don't tell me they don't want to sell the Google phone in China ...daimo 發表於 2010-1-13 12:46

Yeah, I forgot about this.  I would like to see whether they had considered this.

Anyhow, I just couldn't understand why it would make it public without any particular purpose. To me, it seems to be a foolish move unless it has a very smart move after this.

I am even wondering whether the Google blog had been hecked and the article is posted by a hecker.