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Google Steps Up Fight for the China Market

Posted by samzenpus on from the google-google-google dept.

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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  1. Capitalism is a moving force of power by Sheetrock · · Score: 0, Troll
    Many here voice concerns about whether Google will be forced to abide by the law and whether it is ethical to do so. Valid concerns, but I remind you we would be quite upset if a foreign company came in and did things against our own laws because of what they believed.

    Capitalism is a democratizing force. Whether or not Google complies with local laws and regulations matters far less than the increasing degree of involvement in modern capitalism -- which promotes the individual above the community (a little too much in some cases, in my opinion). Chopsticks were invented by Chinese restauranteers seeking to differentiate their fare from typical diners in 1800s American mining communities and have swept the world by storm -- to the point of accounting for 4.7% of our lumber exports! Similarly Chinese manufacturing holds up our steel industry today and provides a wide array of goods that ten years ago would have been completely unaffordable.

    Now it is time for us to give something back. I think it is all but certain that Google will be required to block search terms, but I also think it likely that this will be a mute point as people communicate with each other and take advantage of technology to be more involved in changing their society. It will be to their benefit, much as the Internet has been to our own here.

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    Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
    -- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.




  2. Re:Chinese Citizens: What Your Government Is Hidin by Lightman_73 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Chinese government is a reactionary, dictatorial bunch of non-democratic fascists.

    That's called communism.

    No need to come up with fascists, when you have a more then good term for what your describing.