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Brinksmanship Continues In Google-China Row Over Censorship
According to The Financial Times, "Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now '99.9 per cent' certain to go ahead [with the closure] as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking. In a hardening of positions on both sides, the Chinese government also on Friday threw down a direct public challenge to the US search company, with a warning that it was not prepared to compromise on internet censorship to stop Google leaving." "99.9 per cent" or not, both sides say they'd actually like Google to remain in China, but neither is willing to bend publicly on the question of censorship. If Google closes google.cn, as now seems likely, it could still maintain its R&D office in Beijing and its sales force, who sell ads on google.com targeted into China.
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Google can fool nobody. They lost in China. Baidu is a clear winner. And this hack thing is just to blame for them for their failure. If they were such a big network company they could have easily eliminated such an attack, but they couldn't and now they just don't want to be seen "evil" and blame Chinese government.
/.) but that's the reality.
They for sure will not leave the China for their operations. It's a huge market. They will just try to hide their incapability but be prepared for better technology for China and they know as much as I do that if they leave the China they will eventually lose market in whole world. If not why it took so long for them close their operations in China? It's just a basic block on Chinese ips which they know what they are.
So mod me down Google fanbois (oh it should hard to find on