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Google to defy China's censors a little less
Washington Post 29 June 2010
Search Engine agrees not to automatically redirect users to google.hk.
But it would still prominently display and provide a link to that site for users in China
Google is backing down, but only a little, in its standoff with the government of the People's Republic of China.
Three months after it began redirecting traffic from its censored, China-based google.cn site to a less-regulated site based in Hong Kong, google.hk, Google said Monday night that it would stop sending Chinese users to the Hong Kong page automatically.
Instead, Google Senior Vice President David Drummond wrote in a blog post that the company will limit google.cn to "services like music and text translate, which we can provide locally without filtering," while adding a prominent link to google.hk on that home page (as seen in the screenshot below).
Drummond explained the move as Google's only way to preserve a commercial Web presence in China after seeing the Communist government's intense dislike of its redirecting strategy -- itself a response to a series of hacking attempts on Google's computers and increasing interference with its operations inside the country.
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Washington Post 29 June 2010
Search Engine agrees not to automatically redirect users to google.hk.
But it would still prominently display and provide a link to that site for users in China
Google is backing down, but only a little, in its standoff with the government of the People's Republic of China.
Three months after it began redirecting traffic from its censored, China-based google.cn site to a less-regulated site based in Hong Kong, google.hk, Google said Monday night that it would stop sending Chinese users to the Hong Kong page automatically.
Instead, Google Senior Vice President David Drummond wrote in a blog post that the company will limit google.cn to "services like music and text translate, which we can provide locally without filtering," while adding a prominent link to google.hk on that home page (as seen in the screenshot below).
Drummond explained the move as Google's only way to preserve a commercial Web presence in China after seeing the Communist government's intense dislike of its redirecting strategy -- itself a response to a series of hacking attempts on Google's computers and increasing interference with its operations inside the country.
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