Google Steps Up Fight for the China Market

gaanagaa writes "News Sources are reporting that web services leader Google Inc. has won a license to operate in China and has bought a Web address as it battles Yahoo Inc. in the world's second-largest Internet market. The U.S. Web services giant, which makes its money from searches, advertising and other services, is hiring staff with the aim of opening an office in the country this year, according to several sources within or close to the company. A person familiar with the matter told Reuters the company was planning to open an office by the end of this year, most likely in Shanghai, and was building up a country team to target corporate customers for advertising sales."

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Re:How will Google's indexing be restricted?

[TheRedHorse]

Google's already been accussed many times of working with the Chinese to censor the Chinese version of Google. Censorship is a prerequisite for any company offering information to the chinese it appears.

Here's one example http://www.pandia.com/sw-2004/48-google.html

Re:Shareholder value

[Infonaut]

By the way, did you know that Sergey Brin no longer owns [yahoo.com] any shares in Google?

He could conceivably have unexercised options, though, right?

Re:Chinese Citizens: What Your Government Is Hidin

[DNS-and-BIND]

#1 is blocked because it's google cache. #2 loads fine. #3 I'm not even going to click on. #4 is blocked. I notice you didn't provide any links to Chinese-language sites...how typically self-centered. The Chinese are not too terribly interested in blocking English-language sites, and other languages receive almost zero attention.

Incidentally, Falun Gong is a weirdo cult like Scientology. It's funny how everyone in the West thinks they're some kind of counterculture heroes. Guess what, you've only heard one side of the story from the biased media.