Google's Censorship in China Worked, Wins Favor

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From: Yong Liu

Google's Censorship in China Worked, Wins Favor
11 May 2005
After complying with Chinese requirements that it censor its search
engine results to those people reaching them in China, Google has won
a business license to operate in the Communist state. Reuters reports
from anonymous sources that the search giant now plans to open an
office within the year. That office will include a sales team geared
to attracting China's largest firms to the ways of search marketing.

China has just under 100 million internet users, the second largest
national group of surfers behind the Americans.

Major online media players like Yahoo have long censored their
results in order to prevent China from blocking their sites. This
behavior has largely gone unnoted and may severely limit the positive
dialog effect internet news and communications have had in the past.
One of the greatest benefits of which internet advocates have boasted
has been the medium's international mitigation of cultural biases and
oppression - In essence, creating a common starting point from which
different populations understand the news and reality of the day. But
major American firms now regularly adapt their content to the
nationalist and populist biases of major markets.

Google was criticized last year for starting the same practice. It
was one of the main changes Google was able to show investors for its
then-upcoming IPO that it was no longer a pie-eyed do-gooder firm,
but rather one focused rather cynically on profit.

CNN's coverage:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/11/news/international/china_google.reut/

Register's coverage:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/11/google_china/

Reuters.uk's coverage:
http://tinyurl.com/8je5q

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