Google and Countries
April 2, 2010
Short honk: I saw the AFP story “Google Searches Trigger Error Messages in China” on Yahoo. No surprise there. The question is, “What’s next?” China is a country, and it has enormous hiring-and-firing power as well as a lot of other options to exercise. A lot of options. But perhaps China is an innocent lamb and the problem is a result of a Google glitch. The Register’s story “Google Backtracks on Cause of China Search Block.” So which entity do I believe? This is whom do you trust for real. Is Australia next in the country versus company game? Google seems to be separating a country’s government from its policies. I am not sure this is possible. To read a Google executive’s rationalization navigate to this German language news story. Interesting indeed.
Stephen E Arnold, April 2, 2010
No one paid me to ask these questions or write this news item.
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