Google Agrees to Censor Results in China

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Although Google is willing to fight the U.S. government for its search data
request, Google is not going to take on the Chinese government and its
political censorship drive.

Richard

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http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/24/D8FBCF686.html 
 
Google Agrees to Censor Results in China
Jan 24 7:34 PM US/Eastern
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
AP Business Writer
SAN FRANCISCO

Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in
China, adhering to the country's free-speech restrictions in return for
better access in the Internet's fastest growing market. 

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company planned to roll out a new version of
its search engine bearing China's Web suffix ".cn," on Wednesday. A
Chinese-language version of Google's search engine has previously been
available through the company's dot-com address in the United States. 

By creating a unique address for China, Google hopes to make its search
engine more widely available and easier to use in the world's most populous
country. 

Because of government barriers set up to suppress information, Google's
China users previously have been blocked from using the search engine or
encountered lengthy delays in response time. 

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