Google Has Some Supporters in China
January 14, 2016
Google, China wants you back. Well, more accurately, some folks in China what Google back. What is needed is unbiased search results.
According to “Chinese Citizens Are Boycotting Search Engine Baidu—and Praying for Google to Come Back”:
This week, though, tens of thousands of Chinese citizens pledged to boycott Baidu entirely, after they discovered the Beijing company has been earning profits by giving chronically ill users biased information through its chat rooms, known as “post bar” services.
The write up explains:
Launched in 2003, Baidu Post Bar, or Tieba, is a massive online community with about 19 million discussion groups that range from food to films to foreign affairs. Tieba’s numerous illness-related post bars serve as online support groups, where patients share experiences about their diseases and treatment.
Then there was a hint that Baidu was in the dark:
A Baidu spokesman told Quartz he couldn’t say what percentage of Baidu’s 19 million post bar groups were run by a commercial partner.
Yep, there’s is nothing like an objective, ad supported search system to deliver the results folks need, want, believe to be accurate.
The only hitch may be the Chinese authorities who are able to reflect on companies which tell China what to do.
Stephen E Arnold, January 14, 2016
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