http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/ Engadget Comments for Google search blocked in China, again; other services partially blocked (update: false alarm, says Google) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 29th 2010 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 29th 2010 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Well China has the opposite problem, people are leaving. Plus, wherever you live, you probobly dont have millions of people taking money from your governtment without paying taxes? I'd go on but this is getting off-toppic.]]>Jul 29th 2010 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 29th 2010 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 30th 2010 6:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 29th 2010 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 29th 2010 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/COMMUNIST BASTARDS
i kid, i kid ]]>Jul 29th 2010 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Maybe so the Chinese people can't find out that we have higher pay, benefits, personal property, etc. It's gotta suck over there sometimes...]]>Jul 29th 2010 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Google doesn't want to play by the rules so it get to suffer.

If you do business in US, you have to follow US laws: same in China. This has to do more with legality that morality.]]>Jul 29th 2010 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Google think that it's so big that it's above the law when it's not.]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
Haha .. they are having your job too .. wake up and go out of your room sometimes.]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
Yeah .. lets see, evil corporation vs evil government .. hmm .. hard to pick. Google is not evil but if they can overpower a government then it becomes a very dangerous thing.]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 29th 2010 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/

"If you do business in US, you have to follow US laws"

Unless you're really successful, then you can do what you want, and bribe politicians. Same as China .]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
Looks like just a glitch

Google says report of China search block maybe tech glitch
http://www.reuters.com/article/idCNTOE66S0AQ20100730?rpc=44
]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Why again does HTC want to sell Android phones in China?
China knows Android is made by Google, right?]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
Yeah but what is your point. Sure you can bribe officials anywhere in the world, but you DONT piss them off, like what google did.
]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
Furthermore, western blogs on popular CMS software like Joomla and Wordpress can take several minutes to fully load as content appears to have to pass somehow through the Great Firewall. Also, thousands (or more) sites are completely blocked, even if China deems them OK, simply because they match a blocked IP (shared servers, one is blocked, they are ALL blocked)]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
Because they dont play childish game like google. They just approved google license to continue operate in China. Now think about it, if China ban google and ask all cellphone manufacturer in China stop making android phones, who do you think is the loser here? ]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
The problem is that Chinese laws suck. They're oppressive and restrictive.

Google is simply fighting to let China view content that they should already BE ALLOWED TO access. ]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 29th 2010 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 29th 2010 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
You think China has laws? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/I wouldn't be surprised if Google had a talk with HTC to sell Android phones over there, so they can continue to make money.]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
So basically Google makes no money from their free Android OS now?

HAHAHAHAHAH Great Strategy Moleman Schmidt!!!]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/"another liberal idiot who thinks their ideologies should be accepted by everyone."

...and yet the Bush administration was trying to spread capitalism to other countries...

Now, stop politicking ... this is a tech site!!]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
this is what you get for not following the law. Google is way over it's head.]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
i think it's good to realize that law does NOT equal morals (sure it should but it doesnt)

Google fights for morals, not laws, and I for one think it's a good thing and a very non-evil move from Google (and no, I don't have an android phone :P)]]>Jul 29th 2010 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/I don't know, but those are some mighty big numbers, don't you think?

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/28/eric-schmidt-on-google%E2%80%99s-next-tricks/]]>Jul 29th 2010 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 29th 2010 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
It's not what's the problem with China but what's the problem with the rest of the world. The reason the West and especially the US has difficulties understanding China is simply because China does things differently. In the last 200 years or so the world has become more Westernized and as such people in the West simply expect others to be "more Western" and when people do not conform they are baffled.

In the last 60 years the world has more or less followed the American model of economic development under the Washington Consensus but China in the last 30 years has be the exception to the rule had has now undergone it's own economic development under the newly coined Beijing Consensus. This puts Western but more importantly America at odds with China since this is presents challenges to American Hegemony.

This can be understood in simpler terms: most "advanced" countries has allowed economic liberalization (i.e allowed the opening of their markets to others) and at the same time political liberalization. Counter to this is China's development path, which has undergone economic liberalization but no political liberalization and according to China there need not be for economic progress.

People need to consider that here is no "right" or "universal" path of development and according to the Beijing Consensus there needs to be "a right to self-determination". ]]>Jul 29th 2010 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 29th 2010 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/If course some can bribe the gov, and whatever, but normally the gov is above a company.
If someone is going to do some sort of business at some country they have to do them according to the gov laws. There are always illegal ways, but like it or not you always have to play by the rules (originally)
I guess now downrank me for saying the truth, but not something people like to hear.

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!]]>Jul 29th 2010 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Uh... no. There are a number of fundamental rights and freedoms that are non-negotiable and not a question of being "Western" or not. Freedom from torture, freedom of speech, life, right to own property, etc. are not something that is a "Western" influence or an effect of the so-called American Hegemony, thay are inalienable, and to deny them or to defend attempts to deny them is unconscienable. And before the "You Americans need to stop forcing your view of the world on others." comes in, I'm Canadian.]]>Jul 29th 2010 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 29th 2010 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 29th 2010 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Yes! Someone else who thinks factory conditions should be up to the CEOs AND that people having rights is a bad thing! You and me can get along great.]]>Jul 29th 2010 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Wrong. What is Google's problem? They talked big about censorship, yet still made a deal with China anyway.]]>Jul 29th 2010 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 30th 2010 12:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 30th 2010 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
Funny that people still believe Google is locking horns with China, defying Chinese authority in the name of moral, freedom and whatever virtues.

I thought that here in the US, with the "freedom" of the media, people would be better informed about what REALLY happened between Google and the Chinese government.

Well I guess one difference between the US and China is that in the US, the control of the media is more subtle. ]]>Jul 30th 2010 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
But as I'm a customer of Google and I don't like Baidu at all. Hopefully, Google will obey Chinese laws and rules.

And welcome back, Google]]>Jul 30th 2010 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 30th 2010 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
My aunt lives in Shanghai, and yes, it sucks ass that if you post anything negative about the government on your blog, they actually WILL backtrace it and cyberpolice and consequences will never be the same. =(

I lived in Singapore and its the same thing. They pretend to have elections, but the elections are only from candidates that the dictatorship approves and they still ask you to vote when they only give you one "qualified" candidate to pick from.

NO ONE likes to be silenced, censored, and kept in the dark, but people also don't like to be run over by tanks. What are you supposed to do? ]]>Jul 30th 2010 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
the whole world uses google? actually its far from being the number one search engine in china or most of asia or russia, so there are 100s of millions of people who dont use it.]]>Jul 30th 2010 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
Yeah good luck reading only what your government wants you to read.]]>Jul 30th 2010 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 29th 2010 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/Jul 29th 2010 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/google-search-blocked-in-china-again-other-services-partially/
Only for short messages... or for emphasis.]]>Jul 29th 2010 8:18PM