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China Clamping Down On Google?
News The search engine's international domain was said to be inaccessible throughout China on 31 May, although the self-censored version Google.cn was unaffected. When contacted via e-mail, a Google spokesperson told ZDNet Asia: "We have heard reports...
[June 9, 2006, 10:45]
Google Stays In China, Says Brin
Talkback Yesterday it was 'we censor but we do not censor' and today 'we expect Chinese users to move to censored google.cn because it's faster than uncensored google.com'. Double talking idiocy. We sort of committed to try out this path and we are still...
[June 10, 2006, 3:23]
China Clamping Down On Google?
Talkback There is no contrast - they say essentially the same thing: China is big business and we want a piece of the action. Brin contrasts with Yang? The only values businessmen have are those of business.
[June 10, 2006, 3:31]
Yahoo, Google 'irresponsible' In China
News and Google -- of deliberately conspiring to censor the Web. Such sites disappear from the Chinese language version of Yahoo and a Yahoo-parented search engine, Yisou, while a local search engine that Google now owns a share of, Baidu, also censors...
[July 27, 2004, 16:45]
Microsoft Settles Google Lawsuit Over Executive Hire
News Microsoft has settled its lawsuit with rival Google over the hiring of Kai-Fu Lee, an expert in speech recognition technology and the man who founded Microsoft's China research lab in the late 1990s. Google announced in July its planned to hire Lee...
[December 23, 2005, 9:50]
Google Admits Omitting Chinese News Links
News Web hosting company Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT) reported that Google's Chinese news returned different results depending on whether the search was conducted in China or the US. She pointed that Google News China allows users to search over 1...
[September 27, 2004, 11:45]
Microsoft Sues Google
News Opening a new chapter in its rivalry with Google, Microsoft on Tuesday sued the search giant and a former Microsoft executive who has been tapped by Google to run its China operations. Google said earlier on Tuesday that Lee was joining the company...
[July 20, 2005, 9:05]
Microsoft Wins First Round With Google
News Microsoft proposed on Tuesday settling its lawsuit with Google over the hiring of a former executive in China by asking Google to agree to limit the exec's duties until July 2006 when the non-compete agreement he signed with Microsoft expires.
[September 14, 2005, 7:50]
Google Sells Stake In Baidu
News The search giant has sold its 749,625 Baidu shares, which it purchased for $5m (£2.75m), to concentrate on expanding its own operations in China, including Google.cn, Google said in a statement. It has always been our goal to grow our own...
[June 23, 2006, 14:35]
Amnesty Slams IT Giants For Chinese 'hypocrisy'
News Amnesty International upped its already-harsh criticism of Internet companies on Wednesday by accusing Google, Microsoft and Yahoo of violating their own principles in China. In an email to ZDNet UK's sister site, CNET News.com, Google responded to...
[July 20, 2006, 17:40]
Google: Microsoft Lawsuit Could Harm Us In China
News Losing the services of Kai-Fu Lee for the rest of this year would have a profound effect on Google's recruiting efforts in China, the search engine company has argued in its legal battle with Microsoft.
[September 1, 2005, 10:35]
Google Bows To Chinese Censorship
News Google said on Tuesday it would launch versions of its search and news Web sites in China that censor material deemed objectionable to authorities there, reasoning that users getting limited access to content was better than none.
[January 25, 2006, 7:25]
UN Attacks Tech Giants Over China Co-operation
News Delegates to a United Nations summit on Tuesday assailed Google, Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Yahoo for co-operating too closely with China, suggesting that new global regulations of free expression might be necessary.
[November 1, 2006, 9:42]
China Accused Of Rerouting Search-engine Traffic
News Reports have surfaced that China is redirecting traffic from foreign search engines operated by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, to home-grown Baidu. According to various reports online, some online users in China attempting to access Google.com...
[October 22, 2007, 8:13]
Google's New Hire Hits Back
News Last month, Microsoft sued Lee and Google, charging that Lee had broken a one-year non-compete clause in his contract by accepting a job heading up the search giant's China operations. He said he did not help Microsoft China develop strategies...
[August 22, 2005, 9:35]
Google Keeps Up Porn Probe Battle
Talkback i am having some difficulty understanding Google's going along w/ China while not going along w/ the US. Dissidents for basic freedoms, like press and religion, get run over by tanks in China. Where there is money there is Google?
[February 20, 2006, 16:25]
Yahoo Cited In Jailing Of China Internet Writer
Talkback Yahoo, just like Google and Microsoft, is in China out of pure greed. I wish, but I haven't any hope, that the people of China, when they gain their freedom, remember which companies were on the side of freedom and which betrayed freedom, and that...
[April 28, 2006, 19:37]
Google Savaged By Journalism Watchdog
Talkback Google News is not blocked in China. I am in China and found your story through Google News this morning. The only problem with this story is that it is not true! It was unavailable for three days last week (a common occurance here with many sites...
[November 30, 2004, 23:02]
How Does Google Do It?
News Microsoft sued Google after he was named president of Google China in July, arguing that the move violated a non-compete agreement that was part of his contract. The new hires of Google's deepening talent pool make it apparent that they want to...
[February 28, 2006, 12:10]
Google Seeks Early Win In Microsoft Battle
News Google announced on July 19 that it was hiring Lee to head up a new China research center. In documents accompanying Google's request, Lee said that although he planned to go to China for Google, he expected to return to California after...
[August 30, 2005, 9:20]
