Google Conforms to Chinese Censorship
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Google Inc.'s recently launched news service in China doesn't display results from Web sites blocked by that country's authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to "do no evil."
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China backs down from a censorship plan that required people to register on blog sites with their real names.
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(InfoWorld) - Google is testing a book search service in China that allows users to search and read the full text of books. The trial Web site, which went live on March 2, is the latest addition to Google's Chinese search engine, Google.cn. As part of ongoing efforts toÂ attract more Chinese Internet usersÂ to Google.cn, which limits search results to satisfy Chinese government censors, the company has beenÂ adding more features to the site. A posting on Google's Chinese blog said the company has so far scanned 1 millionÂ books from around the world into its index, but relatively few Chinese books are available. "In China, this mission has just started, we still have a long way to go," the blog said. In addition to allowing users to search the text of indexed books, the book-search service provides links to online book sellers that sell the book. Users can also use Google's revamped and recently relaunched Chinese map service to find the address and location of nearby bookstores, the blog said. In the future, the search engine may also be able to tell users if a bookstore has a particular book in stock, it said. Google has been working on the Chinese book search service since the middle of last year. At that time, Chinese media reported the company had struck deals with four publishers to scan their books for the search engine.
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An effort by Beijing authorities to bar access to the Chinese Google News website would be a considerable setback for the US internet search company, which is seeking to expand its
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A Chinese company is suing Google  Inc.&#39;s China subsidiary for copying its name, saying the U.S.  search engine&#39;s registered Chinese name is too similar to its  own and has harmed its operations.
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In a digital arms race, China's Internet controls might be used for more than censorship.
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Google Responds to Google News China Controversy  Recently Google, in the own words, explained their position on operating in China and their censorship of certain news stories on the Chinese version of Google News. Google News has also been looked into in the United States because of political bias reports. Some ...
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Google has approval to provide Internet content in China, potentially allowing it to offer news in the world's second-largest Internet market.
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Recognizing that internet censorship is hurting its business model in the Middle East and Asia, Google lobbies U.S. trade officials to do something.
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. Congressman Chris Smith said that top American technology companies are failing to prevent censorship and other human rights abuses in China, writing Saturday in a letter to The Wall Street Journal. "There is enormous profit potential, but entering the Chinese market means challenging a repressive regime on basic human rights tenets. Sadly, some of America's largest tech firms are currently failing this new test of corporate responsibility," wrote Smith, a Republican from New Jersey and a member of the Foreign Services Committee. Smith said that representatives from Yahoo, Google, Cisco Systems, and Microsoft appeared at an April, 2006 Congressional hearing he convened and "they all acknowledged that their companies have enabled dictatorships to censor democracy and human rights promotion on the Internet." He also said that "Yahoo and Cisco have evenÂ helped the Chinese government incarcerate Internet usersÂ for pro-democracy activity." Court documents and evidence from human rights groups have shown that Yahoo's Hong Kong subsidiary, Yahoo Holdings (Hong Kong), cooperated with Chinese police in cases against journalist Shi Tao and political activist Li Zhi, and that material provided by the company may have led to their conviction. Shi was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, Li to eight years. In January, Smith re-introduced "The Global Online Freedom Bill of 2007," would give individuals like Shi and Li the right to seek redress in U.S. courts, if they believe their freedom of expression was compromised by a U.S. company. Internet companies would be required to inform the Office of Global Internet Freedom -- to be created if the bill is signed into law -- of keywords and search parameters they are filtering. They must also notify the Office of any restrictions on Internet information access with which they must comply in order to do business in a foreign country. Companies can be fined up to $2 million for violation of these principles, with individuals liable for up to $100,000. The bill provides for $50 million to establish the Office of Global Internet Freedom. The bill cited nine countries, including China, Iran, and North Korea, for blocking, restricting, and monitoring the Internet and its citizens' use of it, according to a January 8 statement from Smith's office. Later in January, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and Vodafone Group agreed to develop aÂ code of conductÂ with a coalition of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to promote freedom of expression and privacy rights. The parties involved said that they would develop a framework that would hold signatories accountable for their actions in the areas of freedom of expression and privacy rights. Eighteen NGOs are participating in the guidelines' development, including: Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School; Business for Social Responsibility; Electronic Frontier Foundation; Human Rights Watch; and Reporters Without Borders. One observer felt the tech firms were now between a rock and a hard place. "Technology companies now have the unenviable position of moving into the media realm, which is tightly controlled in China," said Danny Levinson, publisher of BDL Media's ChinaCSR.com and the China CSR monthly magazine. "When dealing with corporate social responsibility in China, foreign technology companies are easier targets than firms in other sectors because they are much more high profile than, say, the mining companies providing poor labor oversight and textile companies polluting the environment," Levinson said.
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China has been accused of blocking access to Google News by the media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders. The Paris-based pressure group said the English-language news site had been unavailable for the past 10 days.
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Google and SINA team up in a Chinese search partnership.
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A Chinese city planned to censor online  chatroom exchanges and ban anonymous postings after residents  used the Internet to organize a mass protest against a chemical  plant, Chinese media reported on Friday.
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Google Inc. (GOOG)'s recently launched news service in China doesn't display results from Web sites blocked by that country's authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to "do no evil."    Dynamic Internet Technology Inc., a research firm striving to defeat online censorship, conducted tests that found Google omits results from the government-banned sites if search requests are made through computers connecting to the Internet in China...
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By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER WASHINGTON - Once relatively indifferent to government affairs, Google Inc. is seeking help inside the Beltway to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide. The online search giant is taking a novel approach to the problem by asking U.S.
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Google Inc. on Saturday published on   its Belgian website a court order which forbids the Internet   search engine to reproduce snippets of Belgian press on its   news amalgamation service.
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China's leading web search engine is cleared of copyright infringement by a Beijing court.