Google’s Plan to Turn Its Back on China Has Risks

Google’s Plan to Turn Its Back on China Has Risks

SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s move to close its Internet search service in mainland China is a powerful rejection of Beijing’s censorship but also a risky ploy in which Google, a global technology powerhouse, will essentially turn its back on the world’s largest Internet market, with nearly 400 million users.

Little more than two months after threatening to leave the mainland because of censorship and intrusions from hackers, Google closed its Internet search service there Monday. As Google began redirecting tens of millions of mainland Chinese users early Tuesday to its Hong Kong Web site, google.com.hk, parts of the company’s remaining mainland operations quickly came under pressure from Google’s Chinese partners and from the government itself.

Xinhua, the state-controlled news agency quoted an unidentified official with the State Council Information Office on Tuesday who described the move by Google as “totally wrong.”

“Google has violated its written promise it made when entering the Chinese market by stopping filtering its searching service and blaming China in insinuation for alleged hacker attacks,” the official said.

Google’s move to redirect users to Hong Kong, where its operations are uncensored, allowed it to keep its pledge to end censorship while still having a chance to hold on to a share of China’s fast-growing internet search market. [...More...]

Google deixa de bloquear conteúdos em motor de busca chinês

Google deixa de bloquear conteúdos em motor de busca chinês

A Google anunciou uma solução de compromisso após dois meses e meio de conflito com o governo chinês ao redireccionar os visitantes do seu site chinês para o site de Hong Kong.

A Google anunciou, esta segunda-feira, que que deixou de bloquear conteúdos no seu motor de busca chinês e que vai passar a redireccionar os internautas que visitem o seu site para o site baseado em Hong Kong.

No blog oficial da Google, o director do departamento jurídico da empresa explicou que no site [google.com.hk] «são disponibilizados resultados de pesquisa não censurados em chinês simplificado, especialmente concebidos para os utilizadores no continente chinês».

Depois de dois meses e meio de conflito com as autoridades chinês, a empresa anunciou ainda que mantém na China os departamentos comercial e de engenharia, assegurando uma presença tecnológica no mercado chinês.
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