OStatic

by an anonymous user on Jan. 14, 2010

Google is well enough known to users in China- but that may well be a different thing to making money in a comparatively unregulated country.

The fact is that while millions study English, the first preference of many is to search in Chinese. 'Natural' English on many foreign sites is too hard to understand, even for many university English majors.

Many do achieve remarkable levels of English, and do try to do research in English for papers, and a smaller number for other purposes. In doing so it is common that they find foreign sites inaccessible. Not just the well-known 'youtube' or 'Wikepedia' or for along period, parts of the BBC site, but many others too.. sites with no apparent political comment.

The fact is protest is suppressed. Inaccessibility is accepted. The 'harmonious society' rules, and the iron fist is there ultimately to enforce it. It is sometimes commented that ways through the Great Firewall are well-known. In practice, few ordinary users seem to know of them, or have the money to pay for a VPN, for example.

Clearly the Chinese government is maintaining an active policy of information suppression- that includes past and present events and invests heavily in technology, internet police staff and monitoring. Google's stance in opposition to that must be unacceptable to such an authoritarian government.

The question to me is, that with so many more Chinese having contact with the West, and becoming more informed, how long can such misinformation persist? Yet their pride in their country, and the few, like the designer of the Bird's Nest Stadium, recently punched by Chinese police for his part in protest about the collapse of Sichuan schools, and who has had web sites closed, or the computer teacher I met who had his email account and blog closed because of his views expressed therein, are very much in the minority.

Most would be astonished by Jung Chang's 'Mao- the Unknown Story' - yet most educated Chinese are aware of corruption and pollution. However, they are prepared to sacrifice freedoms we take for granted for the sake of progress. As long as that is so, the restrictions will remain.

by trescothick on Jan. 14, 2010

It is an excellent business idea and must be pursued. It is a win-win situation for all the parties involved.

1. For Chinese government, they get free censorship which is professional and reliable.

2. For Chinese people, the knowledge is coming home to the door step. The information will be censored but they will have access to more organized content.

3. For Google, more customers. There are 111 million people who surf web in China, how would not go out of way to get some more revenue?

I think excellent business idea Google has here !

Heel Tastic

by hineliyaa on Jan. 22, 2010

Yaaaaaaa,its a very nice article about Google's Chinese Diplomacy: Can Google Make a Difference?, i read this article in this article have more informations.Thanks to see this article in this side.

http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/proactol-review-does-proacto...

by david leonen on Apr. 19, 2010

Thanks for the nice post. I am expecting some different idea from your side. You always represent some new thought in your post.

Acai Berry

by mac data recovery on Apr. 23, 2010

The diplomacy has finally end and the Chinese government had to get rid of the super search engine so sad for them