Is Google tired of China?
p2p news / p2pnet: Google co-founder Sergey Brin has admitted the company, "compromised its principles by agreeing to censor its Chinese site," reported Aljazeera.com, continuing.
"Sergey Brin said Google agreed to the censorship demands only after Chinese authorities blocked its service. Brin described China’s demands as a ’set of rules that we weren’t comfortable with’ but added that Google’s competitors complied with the same demands without international criticism."
It also had Brin as saying, "We felt that perhaps we could compromise our principles but provide ultimately more information for the Chinese and be a more effective service and perhaps make more of a difference."
Now, "Brin recently revealed that the company was likely to abandon its China-based search engine Google.cn," says TMCnet, pointing out, "users of Google.cn are not even up to 1% of people who use Google.com.
"So the Chinese version of Google turns out to be merely a chicken-rib product to some extent, an Internet analyst asking not to be named told Chinese media."
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Also See:
compromised its principles – Google’s adventures in China, June 7, 2006
TMCnet – Google Might Abandon Google.cn, June 11, 2006
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