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Why Google always complaining about the Chinese censorship and not Microsoft and Yahoo. We do not hear so much nonsenses from other search companies but Google. And once a while from Matt Mullenweg too! Why?

China is a country with fifty-six ethnic groups, sharing land borders with fourteen countries. World largest population with a recorded population of 1.3 billion plus another estimated of at least one billion unregistered citizens and now the second largest economy in the world.

A big growing nation with so many cultural and ethnic differences, and fourteen different borders to defence, not including those still disputing over territorial rights, the Chinese government is managing their lands and people as one unified country and will not allow extremists or religious zealots to cause instability to the country or dethrone its sovereignty.

As a sovereign nation, the Chinese government is doing it best to protect it citizens. China still have a huge population of less educated citizens and these people can be easily manipulated by extremists. Using technologies from Google and Twitter, an extremist can easily raise an army to go against the government.

If the supremacy of the President of the United States has been compromised, schedules of the president publish on the internet and articles circulating on Twitter with title like ‘Three Easy Steps To Kill The President’. Will Google in the name of freedom of speech allows such contents to circulate freely? I believe any country leadership that is threaten by contents on the internet, the government will take it own initiative to censor, like the chinese censorship, and protect it sovereignty, just like catching illegal arms dealers smuggling arms into a country.

So many years have past, why Google has not learn it lesson and still cannot grab a stable foothold in the Chinese market? China has four thousands years of history. It has it own diverse cultures and beliefs the country still trying to cope with. Most of the families are still poor today and still depending on farming or living on daughters’ hard earned money from prostitution. China has come a long and hard way in it reform and it is still learning to fit itself into the modern world.

Does Google really has an understanding of the Chinese market or it just a bimbo brand? If you do a Chinese keyword search and compare Google search results for Chinese based contents to other Chinese search engines, it will show you how Google is so lack behind. This indicates to me that Google do not have an understanding of the Chinese internet. From the beginning, If Google has take it time to understand the Chinese culture and learn the Chinese way, I believe by now, Google is also the number one search engine in China.

Google please do not impose your western education in a Chinese culture. Instead learn to blend in your enriched western technologies into Chinese censorship, helping the Chinese government to build a better future and not condemning it to build your own egoistic empire at the expense of a country sovereignty.

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All of us have our crafted reasons why Google fails in China and humping over Chinese censorship over now and then. Most of us will blame it on the Chinese government. For me, here are my reasons.

Google did not localise it search engine and products for the Chinese market. Google offers a factory default packaging which is not even fit for the entire chinese market. Recent years Google is modifying it products to be in better position to compete with local competitors but it is advancing slowly. Take a look at McDonalds the fast food chain in China. Knowing that burger is not Chinese type of food, it learns fast and quickly adapts to the diverse Chinese cultures and offer food that is more appealing to the Chinese people of different ethics groups. Different McDonalds restaurants at different locations offer different type of food and not a one-size-fit-all burger.

Google is egoistic and think that he is the superstar and and we all adore him. Sad to say, how can a superstar do not love his fans. Google only think for himself and not how he can contribute to make China a better place on earth. China is a big country with fifty-six minority ethics groups to manage, sharing fourteen land borders with many hostile neighbours. All Google cares is singing his freedom of speech song, neglecting China peace keeping efforts can be easily destroy in the abusive name of free speech.

Google rely too much on technology. This world is fill with people and human beings use Google not robots. China is a country with four thousands years of history deeply rooted in ‘guanxi’ (connected relationship). Connected relationship is people deeply related to one another and helping one another for mutual benefits. Every expat living in China will learn this Chinese vocabulary and understand how Chinese people work and how Chinese organisations are intertwine. Without the rightful connected relationship, you will get to no where. In China, connected relationship comes first. Technology second.

Google has no understanding of the diverse Chinese cultures and the peace the Chinese government trying to maintain. Chinese people are smart and hardworking and are very good at abusing what they have at hand and circumventing the laws. Chinese people are hunger for wealth and will do anything to make them rich instantly. Take a look at all the pirated stuffs available in China, fake Nokia N95, fake ATM booth to steal your card PIN numbers, etc. Restricting certain technologies and web services available to the public help to protect Chinese citizens from being a victim from technology abuse.

The Chinese censorship is in place to protect the citizens and not to fend off western invasion. China is a growing nation and many Chinese are still lowly educated and cannot differentiate a fake iPhone from a real one. It takes time for the nation with more than 1.4 billion people, to grow mature and every Chinese learns to protect himself.

Why Google cares so much about how it search engine should work in China? If Google understands all these and help with the Chinese censorship, Chinese people will grow faster in due time. China will soon to be a safer place on earth and Chinese people will embrace Google in the near future.

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• Google Freedom of Speech – In The Mercy Of The Chinese Law
• Google – Empty Vessel Makes the Most Noise
• Why Google Fails in China and Humping Over Chinese Censorship Over Now and Then
• Three Reasons Why Google Should Leave China

Google leaving China or not, is not an important issue to many people like us living inside the great firewall of China and for people searching for Chinese article contents because Google do not play any important role in our internet life.

Here are the three reasons why Google should leave China and as early as possible.

No big difference. When you talk about searching for Chinese article contents, it is a waste of time using Google. Search using google.com or google.cn make not much different in your search. Main differences are, you do not see youtube video and other blocked websites, and reorder of search results for google.cn. The only benefit is, if you search with Hanyu Pinyin in google.cn you get the option to choose to search the Chinese characters instead of Hanyu Pinyin, which is already a typical feature in a Chinese search engine.

Too many keywords search. Searching for your hard to find chinese article contents from Google may take you from five to ten keywords. A typical Chinese search engine, will take less than five keywords to find what you want. If you are looking for a hard to find mp3, Google may give you the result after the tenth page. A Chinese search engine will most likely give you the result on the first page. This tells me a lot about Google and it commitment to the Chinese market. Google do not care about how the Chinese people way of life and if they do, Google search engine will be more Chinese search friendly.

Google is a stupid name. Google in English has no meaning to the Chinese people because majority of the Chinese do not read English. Having a Chinese Google name and not using it, makes Google more stupid. In the Chinese internet world, Google uses the English Google name mix with chinese characters on the search buttons and heading tags to form a sentence and this is annoying to the majority of non-english Chinese users. Mixing them is like reading Japanese and English texts combine together. Who the hell knows what it means!

Google should learn from his competitor, Yahoo. Yahoo uses the Chinese Yahoo name in everything they do, including offline promotion. An interesting fact here is, people hear of Google know Chinese Yahoo name but people hear of Chinese Yahoo name may not know Google. I think is time for Google to sell themselves as GuGe, the Chinese friendly name, or else is about time for Google to leave.

If you ever need to search for Chinese article contents on the internet, do a comparison next time and see if Google give you what you want faster or a typical Chinese search engine will serve you better. Test it out!

Related interesting posts:

• Google Freedom of Speech – In The Mercy Of The Chinese Law
• Google – Empty Vessel Makes the Most Noise
• Why Google Fails in China and Humping Over Chinese Censorship Over Now and Then
• Three Reasons Why Google Should Leave China