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Chinese Search Giant Baidu Launches International Sites
jfruh writes "Baidu, a company that offers a search engine, a Wikipedia-style user-edited encyclopedia, and other online services, is a household name in China. Now the company is seeking to gain ground on Google in the rest of the world, opening local search sites (in local languages) for Thailand, Brazil, and Egypt."
Will that be with or without censorship?
More international warez! And malware!
Or the prequel to Firefly.
Beware of those who profit off the docile and persecute the unbelievers.
They are only a giant because their government does not allow anyone else to participate. I'm not sure how they are hoping to translate this business model to countries not ruled by paranoid kleptocracies.
Google needs competition. That being said, tried all three sites with the same results: "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading". Damn you, Slashdot effect...
The NSA: The only part of the US government that actually listens.
It is rude to randomly redirect visitors to beta.slashdot.
Even more so because beta sucks.
Providing a hard to find opt-out, adding /?nobeta=1 to the url, just upgrades the aggravation level from "rude" to "insulting and infuriating".
The only acceptable option is, as always, opt-in.
I guess you need reminding. a lot.
Will that be with or without censorship?
You mean like the U.S. censorship? and U.S. Internet providers self-censorship? Let's put this straight. What country kills people randomly. What country locks people up indefinitely without trial. What country tortures prisoners. What country spies on its own people monitoring everything its people do. The answer is the U.S., people in glass houses should not throw stones. 1980s: There’s been a bomb in Oxford Street! and in the days before Al Qaeda, there is only one prime suspect. The U.S.A. sponsoring terrorist as always. The U.S.A has sponsored every terrorist organisation in the world. One way or another throughout its short history the U.S. has attempted to kill you. http://www.the-philosopher.co....
More international warez! And malware!
I don't know if this deserves to be negative - I had to do a really dumb malware removal on a POS system, and the majority of the trouble was coming from software that was branded Baidu. Here in the middle of the great plains, at a Mexican Restaraunt.
It had several hidden portions that hijacked the browser, too, not to mention popup ads. Most cleanup tools didn't work on it, either - we ended up getting down and dirty with it and removing things manually as we discovered them.
I don't really know why I mention this, apart from to say that I dislike Baidu and I'm not at all surprised at any accusation of them being malware-ridden.
I think that your logic can be applied to any major power absolute power corrupts absolutely. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...
But Baidu is less likely to be in bed with the NSA, so there's that.
American NSA or Chinese NSA. Hmmm.... *ponders*
So what you're saying is we should block anything Baidu at our front door now while we can? I'm all for it.
Yes, US is guilty of everything you listed. We can talk about all the past and present failed US policies. We can openly criticize the policies. For those of us who live in the US, we can even openly organize to remove the politicians in questions. That is the difference between democratic nations and authoritarian countries.
Like the old saying, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." US has certainly slipped but it is still far ahead of China is terms of basic civil rights for all.
But I think I'll stick with the search engine that allows people to search for Tiananmen Square.
Should I choose being spied by the Chinese or US governments? Hey, I can have BOTH, now!