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Baidu Working on an Android Rival

by Robert Quigley | 4:17 pm, July 21st

According to Xinhua, China’s official news agency, Chinese search company Baidu is working on a Linux-based mobile OS of its own to take on Google’s Android. Baidu is currently the largest search engine in China, with a search share of a whopping 70 percent versus Google’s 27.8 percent, and it makes sense that with over 800 million mobile phone users in China, Baidu would want a piece of the mobile operating system pie on which to put a scoop of its own search engine sorbet.

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Google’s China License Renewed After All

by Robert Quigley | 8:37 am, July 9th

At the end of June, Google stopped rerouting search traffic from its Chinese page, Google.cn, to its unfiltered Hong Kong page, Google.com.hk. At the time, they’d said that the Chinese government was displeased with their past refusal to comply with google.cn censorship, and that if they continued to evade filtering, the government would not renew their Internet Content Provider (ICP) license.

Well, it appears that Google and China have managed to come to an agreement. In an interview with Reuters and in an update to their initial blog post explaining their reversal on Google.cn rerouting, Google has confirmed that their ICP license has been renewed by the Chinese government and that they will continue to do business in China, albeit with censoring in place.

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China Warns Google Advertisers to Obey Censorship Laws, or Else

by Robert Quigley | 8:46 am, March 15th

There may be a “99.9 per cent” chance that Google is going to shut down its Chinese engine Google.cn, as we learned this weekend, and that presents its advertising partners with a tricky choice: Stick with the company with whom they’ve enjoyed past success and risk bannination in the Chinese market, or defect to Chinese search engines at the cost of familiarity — and freedom from censorship.

Now, according to the New York Times, the Chinese authorities have put their thumbs on the scale: They’ve warned Google’s partners that to play ball in China, they’re going to need to censor their search results, with or without Google.

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