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Google Using Chinese Site It Owns To Develop Search Term Blacklist For Censored Search Engine, Says Report (theverge.com)
Google is using search samples from a Beijing-based website it owns to make blacklists for the censored search engine it is developing for China. Google's website 265.com redirects to China's dominant search engine, Baidu, by default, "but Google can apparently see the queries that users are typing in," reports The Verge. From the report: Google engineers are reportedly sampling those search queries in order to develop a list of thousands of blocked websites it should hide on its upcoming search engine in China. Blacklisted results, which include topics like the Tiananmen Square massacre, will result in users seeing a blank page, The Intercept reports. On Baidu, if you search for something less specific, like Taiwan or Xinjiang, you'll get a partial blackout where you can only see tourist information and not politically sensitive news reports. It could be possible that Google is taking a similar tack.
Originally, 265.com was founded in 2003 by Chinese entrepreneur Cai Wensheng, who's also the founder of Chinese beauty app Meitu. Google bought the site in 2008, while it was still operating its search engine within China. Google has essentially been using the site to figure out what Chinese users are searching for since 2008, and now that it is working on an Android search app, it will finally have a use for that data. The Intercept first reported this news.
Originally, 265.com was founded in 2003 by Chinese entrepreneur Cai Wensheng, who's also the founder of Chinese beauty app Meitu. Google bought the site in 2008, while it was still operating its search engine within China. Google has essentially been using the site to figure out what Chinese users are searching for since 2008, and now that it is working on an Android search app, it will finally have a use for that data. The Intercept first reported this news.
How many Google employees demanded Google not work on US Military projects that defend the free world?
Did Google withdraw from those US Military projects?
How many Google employees demanded Google not work on Chinese government projects to oppress people?
Has Google withdrawn from Chinese oppression projects?
Remember: As a one-party-rule Communist nation with a dictator-for-life, EVERYTHING in China is tied to China intelligence and military entities - there's no credible claim that a tool used to spy upon and oppress the Chinese citizenry is NOT associated with Chinese spy agencies and the Chinese military.
Perhaps Google needs to dump all the H1-B employees and hire a few more patriotic American citizens --- IF there are any patriotic American citizens still willing to work there...
You're slipping. I thought he was going to be impeached and sent to jail. Now he's in the 2020 election. Get it together, man.
Time to give Google the corporate death penalty. Destroy all companies that help support dictatorships.
Anyone else's brain segfault while parsing the headline? In other words: Segfault Brain: Yours Did, asks commenter questioninglyish.
I'm surprised that google.com itself wasn't the prototype. Those of us who use the other search engines know how... opinionated the results are. To the point where when I'm searching for something very specific, I can't find it but it's a first page result on other engines.
I used them before they had their own domain name, but they're too manipulated now by people who care about things other than whether or not I can find the information I'm looking for.
I guess that's an "inconvenient truth".
Google is a despicable capitalist corporation that eats up people like you and shits out perfumed turds.
Don't Be Evil
Ah yes, China's famous Office 365 knockoff, Office 265, with 72% uptime
Tibet
Tiananmen Square protests and the date1989.
No mention of the June 4 incident.
No Gang of Four https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Thats some might fine freedom of speech for a US brand....
Not going to find two term limit.
No searching for 1984, Brave New World, Personality cult, emperor’s reign, ascend the throne. No yellow gown.
Nothing on a third consecutive term, continued rule.
Communism bringing censorship to a US brand for every user.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Tiananmen Square heroic tank maneuvers... GOOD!
Foxconn suicides - BAD.
Foxconn dormitory attached trampolines... GOOD!
VPN how-to - BAD.
Loving government monitoring for citizens’ protection... GOOD!
#DeleteChrome
The staunch free-market capitalists should have no issue with this. Sometimes (often?) freedom gets in the way of profits.
It's time for everyone to stop bending over for China. Instead of helping them develop even more effective methods of oppression, the rest of the world should stand together and disconnect China from the internet. If they cannot play by the rules (not murdering people), they should not be allowed to play.
...stating the obvious to say that Google are a bunch of cunts?
Can almost see Google in a VW rolling down the street with fanta in hand, stack of holerith cards in the trunk snapping kodaks for the AP.
They love to shit all over the US, such as not working on AI for military projects, but they are sure as hell happy to work on a search engine to censor ordinary citizens in China.
Seriously, Google has lost their way and deserves to die a slow death because of it.
It's time for everyone to stop bending over for China. Instead of helping them develop even more effective methods of oppression, the rest of the world should stand together and disconnect China from the internet.
Then they disconnect themselves from the Treasury Bill Auction and cash in their T-Bills.
Gotta do something about that balance of payments and/or the national debt if we want our great-great-great grandchildren to finally escape being held hostage in that way.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Pfft. Chinese donations go to Democrats [publicintegrity.org] (along with their spies, apparently [zerohedge.com]) so they're the Good Guys.
Maybe Mueller can add the DNC/China collusion to his foreign collusion investigation.
Seems rather suspicious that the FBI is spending so much time on Trump/Russia collusion with _still_ no evidence that the Trump campaign actually colluded (a meeting where the FBI themselves said nothing happened is not collusion) when there's clear proof that the DNC and HRC not only colluded, but also accepted campaign contributions from the Chinese.
I almost think this is better. Allow the search to run, but just show a blank page. Baidu's results give the impression "this is all there is to see, everything is fine". Google giving a blank page says essentially "we can't show you this" (without getting them in hot water by, like, displaying a message stating that). Google isn't breaking any laws because they are not showing any "politically sensitive" pages, but they are making it very obvious something is missing.
For fucks sake, who the fuck is this BeauHD retard kiddie !??!
Is this what Slashdot turned into?!
Fuuuuuuck!
Just look at his sig ...fucking cretin....which is way better than his comments anyway.
I mean this retard gets stories submitted and at the same time moderated -1 on all his comments
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s.e.n.i.o.r -=- e.d.i.t.o.r
Anything that doesn't conform to the way 'elites' (political bureaucrats) want you to think WILL be banned, as 'hate' speech or some other easily misused word.
The real shame is there are Chinese who do use VPNs to bypass the Great Wall but it's not always trivial to know what the latest censored material the government doesn't want you to know about. Instead of using their technology to build a tool to try to compete against baidu--hint, they'll fail to ever obtain any sort of dominance precisely because they're not under China's control--they could introduce a Chinese-friendly tool to only produce censored content and especially to provided trending/new terms.
Of course, that'd make good long-term business sense. I don't think Google has that.
Google is exploring a way to serve Chinese people not the Xi regime. If Google can fine tune their SW to comply with local requirements it will help Their position in case restrictions lessen later. US took Middle East dictators oil for many years, coz it was beneficial.
Trump is outside the beltway, that is his crime. Hopefully he wont hang because of it.
Corporate slogan: Do be evil.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Sergey Brin, one of Google's co-founder escaped the oppressive communists in Soviet Union and moved to America. He then enjoyed the liberty, freedom and democracy of the American capitalist society. He claim to understand the plight of the oppressed people under these communist regimes, saying things like: "...I wouldn’t be where I am today or have any kind of the life that I have today if this was not a brave country that really stood out and spoke for liberty." Now that he's one of the world's ultra rich, he seems to have forgotten the value of freedom, liberty and democracy. Now Google, his company, is becoming a tool of oppression of governments with ideologies he once seek refuge from. Money seems to have it's way to transform a success story into a sad tragedy.
Apparently you haven't been keeping up with the news on the meeting:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/05/politics/trump-tweet-trump-tower-meeting/index.html
All corporations in China are majority owned by the Chinese Government.
Google is not the owner, merely one of the owners.
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They already have the "technology" - but need to fill out the pick list. The China pick list will be different than the US pick list or the British pick list. When was the last time anyone on this page saw porn inside of general search results? Never - because it was deranked especially because it is porn. If it was deranked to be less than one of the top 1000 sites, it is never seen inside of general results. Unfavored religions? Same thing. So it goes, on an on, such that we see only the top 10, or 100, or 1000 out of 50 million or so sites for a particular search - and IMO that's generally going to be coming from a biased pick list.
Recently someone backlinked my site, which had xyz amount of traffic for years. The backlink was from a "conspiracy" site. Within two days, the traffic was xyz/2 - and it hasn't returned in months.
Search engines give us a hand selected 1% or less result, almost every time. It doesn't matter which engine it is either IMO. So China? Same thing but different.