Brinksmanship Continues In Google-China Row Over Censorship 133
According to The Financial Times, "Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now '99.9 per cent' certain to go ahead [with the closure] as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking. In a hardening of positions on both sides, the Chinese government also on Friday threw down a direct public challenge to the US search company, with a warning that it was not prepared to compromise on internet censorship to stop Google leaving." "99.9 per cent" or not, both sides say they'd actually like Google to remain in China, but neither is willing to bend publicly on the question of censorship. If Google closes google.cn, as now seems likely, it could still maintain its R&D office in Beijing and its sales force, who sell ads on google.com targeted into China.
Re:Well, that's good to hear (Score:4, Informative)
Bad summary, Google isn't pulling out of China (Score:1, Informative)
From the article:
"It’s very important to know we are not pulling out of China"
At most, it appears they would stop offering search services.
Re:Well, that's good to hear (Score:0, Informative)
Um...sorry to burst your FUD bubble, but Microsoft has a much better privacy policy than Google, and there is no evidence of Microsoft ever having censored search results at the request of the Chinese government.
Re:Bad summary, Google isn't pulling out of China (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Well, that's good to hear (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Well, that's good to hear (Score:3, Informative)
In China it is called Biying, which is more like "surely" + "answer"