If Google was banned in china? where shall we go to use the gmail? gtalk? adsense? blogger? Greader? etc… Now almost everything I used on internet are related with google, so what it should be soon?
and in fact, in baidu you can also search the pornographic and vulgar content in chinese, I don’t konw what happened and why it is google…
News from newyorktimes
The Chinese government disabled some search functions on the Chinese-language Web site of Google on Friday, saying the site was linking too often to pornographic and vulgar content.
Government officials met with managers of the Chinese operations of Google on Thursday afternoon to warn them that the company would be punished if it did not remove the offending material from the Web site, according to a report on Friday by Xinhua, the state news agency.
Earlier Thursday, a government-supported Internet watchdog group, the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center, criticized the search engine for its erotic content and threatened punishment by the government. It said Google had already been warned twice, in January and April, about its content.
On Friday evening, the associative-word feature of the Web site appeared to have been disabled. That is the function that displays a drop-down menu of words related to a search word that is typed into the search engine. The previous evening, reporters on China Central Television, the state television network, showed how typing in the Chinese word for son, erzi, could pull up associated terms that have lewd connotations.
State news organizations said the ability to use Google’s Chinese site to search overseas Web sites was supposed to have been disabled, but that feature was working Friday evening.
Google released a statement saying it was making greater efforts to clean up its Chinese Web site. “We have been continually working to deal with pornographic content, and material that is harmful to children, on the Web in China,” the statement said
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:36 am
well Kent…..I wonder too what will happen.
But maybe China government wants to show its power…
I do not think they will dare to fully block google!
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:24 pm
@mike michelini I have no words with the gov, not so free