[ILUG] Mother of God!

[Colm Buckley]

On 14 Feb 2006, at 17:33, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:

>> In, short, I believe that Google.cn is a net benefit for Chinese
>> internet users, and I've yet to see any convincing proposal for
>> alternative action by Google which would have been better for the
>> Chinese people.
>
> Trying to get together with the other search providers, and  
> encouraging
> a mass boycott of the Chinese terms would have been better. Also,  
> simply
> staying out of the market entirely would have been better for the
> Chinese people in the long term (though not Google).

Do you think so?  What proportion of searches from Chinese people do  
you suppose are related to the banned terms?  Is it really better to  
deny them all search functionality than remove some results?  These  
are not easy questions, and I'm not saying that Google's solution is  
necessarily the correct answer, but I don't think that you can claim  
to have all the answers in this case.

	Colm

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