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Chinese Scientists Recalibrate Google’s Evil Scale

in News on February 26, 2010 at 3:01 am PT

Evidently, Baidu isn’t nearly as effective an academic research tool as Google, because the latter’s threatened withdrawal from China has got the country’s scientists pretty worried. A survey of 784 Chinese scientists by science journal Nature found that many feel the search engine is indispensable to their work, particularly if it requires English-language searches for material outside China.

New Chinese Version of Google SafeSearch Eliminates Google Entirely

in News on June 25, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

Google’s mission, to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible, has once again run afoul of the Chinese government, which has a similar goal, but would much prefer that certain information stay inaccessible. And so, on Wednesday evening, Chinese citizens found themselves once again unable to use Google, Gmail, and YouTube as their government condemned Google as a purveyor of porn.