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Chinese Sites Band Together To Counter Google
egoff writes "The China Search Alliance is a coalition of over 200 Chinese internet portals that have joined together to try to capture the Chinese search market before Google can "invade." Started by China.com.cn, an official government portal, the CSA has now expanded to include mainly commercial, non-governmental, Chinese sites. According to Guangzhou-based New Express News, Google has already approached several Chinese firms about forming a partnership. Being that it started in the government, this looks like a tool for greater control while appearing to be in open competition with Google."
Bear in mind that the chinese goverment - beeing a tad more leftwing than most others - have a history of trying to 'guide' what their people see, read and think. We're talking about the same goverment that demands that internet-cafes log every site their customers look at. We're talking about the same goverment that has - in the past - blocked off entire subnets where they have found sites that are critical of the aforementioned chinese goverment. We are - when we get down to it - talking of the same goverment who sendt tanks to end a peaceful demonstration on the Square of Heavenly Peace a dozen years back.
What are they afraid of? The free flow of information that the internet are all about. So, are you still wondering why the chinese goverment are behind this?
Everything in the world is controlled by a small, evil group to which, unfortunately, no one you know belongs.
I'm sure that if you did a search in Chinese you would get more results. Although I'm not sure if they have a character for the disease... I don't know anything about Chinese, really.
I do know that if you try searching for something in English on a Japanese search engine, you don't get that many results. Write it in katakana (Japanese characters used to write foreign words) and you get the real results.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
Uhh, no. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the eastern bloc communist states had much more to do with Gorbachev and the untenable nature of a command economy than Ronald Reagan. As romantic as it is to believe his "tear down this wall" speech was a determining factor, it really wasn't. If you're looking for heroes in this arena, try Lech Walesa first.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan
MOST of my spam is 100% pure American spam, thank you. So piss off with this sheer hypocrisy already.
The chinese word for AIDS is (ai4zi1bing4), searching for which brings up 588 entries, like for example www.aids.net.cn or www.aidsonline.com.cn. Probably still not as much as appropriate, but better than one.
I don't usually reply to ACs, but, this is still bullshit. Hong Kong people (I live there, I have an ID card, I'm married to a Chinese, so I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT) did not ever want to be part of China. As for demonstrations, over 1 million demonstrated against China in 1989 after Tiananmen Square, and still do every 4th June since.
Hongkongers aren't stupid, they know that China would never let it become independent. How about Taiwan? There the people have an army (and the US fleet) to prevent the PLA from rolling over them, they DO have a choice, and have overwhelmiongly chosen to remain separate.