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Google was hardly kicked out in 2010. And in 2018 they were going to re-enter under essentially the same political conditions (Dragonfly), but it was pressure f
by aragonite 3y ago
Google was hardly kicked out in 2010. And in 2018 they were going to re-enter under essentially the same political conditions (Dragonfly), but it was pressure from American politicians/the public that deterred them from doing so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)
- Retric 3y agoProtectionism need not be binary. As one example, Chinese users of Google and many foreign companies websites hosted inside China experienced random slowdowns making them significantly less appealing to users. This is distinct from the blanket slowdown users experience when they access foreign websites from within China.
- aragonite 3y agoI remember when those complaints surfaced. However, re: > This is distinct from the blanket slowdown users experience when they access foreign websites from within China ... I'm reasonably sure that happened after Google's exit from China, and the slowness complaints were about accessing Google services outside the GFW either in HK or abroad. (Not all Google services overseas were blocked: for example, Google+ was accessible albeit unreliable and slow.) I don't recall any slowness complaints about Google.cn (which was hosted inside China) when it was still a thing.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoGoogle.cn would put you in a penalty box sometimes depending on what you searched for, so would Google.HK, I assume that was happening via the GFW and not via Google itself, but Google could have been complicit? Bing did the same thing, but eventually Bing.cn was harmonized and I didn’t have to worry about penalty boxes anymore.