Google today announced, that they redirect any services from google.cn (Google China) to their services at google.com.hk (Hong Kong). The reasons are, that google.com.hk is outside of the great Chinese firewall and therefor does not need to be self-censored. On the other side, this means that China can just block any traffic from inside to google.com.hk and hundreds of millions of Chinese Internet users are cut off from Google and their services like Blogger, Picasa, Adsense, Google News and others.
What makes me wonder is that, what happens to the tens of millions of mobile users? Isn’t Google all about mobile web and search? How are they going to offer their products to these users? Are they being redirected as well? Will more device makers switch to bing or Baidu?
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Google today announced, that they redirect any services from google.cn (Google China) to their services at google.com.hk (Hong Kong). The reasons are, that google.com.hk is outside of the great Chinese firewall and therefor does not need to be self-censored. On the other side, this means that China can just block any traffic from inside to google.com.hk and hundreds of millions of Chinese Internet users are cut off from Google and their services like Blogger, Picasa, Adsense, Google News and others.
What makes me wonder is that, what happens to the tens of millions of mobile users? Isn't Google all about mobile web and search? How are they going to offer their products to these users? Are they being redirected as well? Will more device makers switch to bing or Baidu?Related Posts
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Tagged with china, Google, google-china, google.cn, mobile, News, websearch.
By CoCaman
– 22. March 2010
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