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This article is just an excerpt from Steven Levy's book and it cuts out before it gets to Google's current situation in China. After these events, they redirect
by mryall 15y ago
This article is just an excerpt from Steven Levy's book and it cuts out before it gets to Google's current situation in China. After these events, they redirected users from their Chinese domain name to their Hong Kong servers in order to sidestep the censorship requirements.
This situation didn't last very long, however, and China threatened to withdraw Google's license for their Chinese website if they continued redirecting users automatically. When this happened in June last year, Google restored the censorship on google.cn, just leaving a link for customers to get to google.co.hk for unfiltered results.
More details about this can be found on Google's blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/update-on-china.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/update-on-china.html
- gommm 15y agoThey didn't restore the censorship on google.cn... Instead, right now google.cn is just a landing page linking to www.google.com.hk so it's just basically the same as a redirect, the user just needs to click on the link instead of being sent there automatically...
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- magicalist 15y agoyeah, that was a weird conclusion...it says right there in the linked blog post "instead of automatically redirecting all our users, we have started taking a small percentage of them to a landing page on Google.cn that links to Google.com.hk—where users can conduct web search or continue to use Google.cn services like music and text translate, which we can provide locally without filtering. This approach ensures we stay true to our commitment not to censor our results on Google.cn and gives users access to all of our services from one page."