Comments on: Don’t bother searching for “Tianenmen Square” (updated)

By: misssakora

misssakora — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:37:34 +0000

wow

By: Computerworld Blogs

Computerworld Blogs — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:35:34 +0000

Google

In today’s IT Blogwatch, we look at Google’s kowtow — or should that be "doing business"? Not to mention a poem about technology…
What’s this we hear? Google kowtowing to government pressure — not the US but the Chinese government (as …

By: Detour

Detour — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:31:53 +0000

Do No Evil…

For the most part I think of Google as a indisputably first-class company. I have trouble thinking of criticisms of the company Ã¢â‚¬Â¦that is until this week. Google has every right to enter any agreements that it sees fit. I love the free market syste…

By: Mathew

Mathew — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:18:12 +0000

I would agree that companies have to do certain things in order to grow their business, and I would even agree with Sergey that Google being in China is probably better in the long run than not being there — but what I think it points out is how difficult it is to have a motto like “Don’t be evil” when you’re a gigantic multinational corporation. It’s a lot easier to pull off when you’re just a little startup. You’ll notice that the oil industry and the U.S. government don’t have a motto like that :-) In that sense, Larry and Sergey have made their bed, and now they have to lie in it.

By: Stuart MacDonald

Stuart MacDonald — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:11:57 +0000

Yeah, and the Saudis and Venezuelans aren’t the swellest, but they have all that oil, sooo…

C’mon guys. It ain’t pretty, but you swallow hard and do what you have to do. A major online player without a .cn “on principle” makes about as much sense as Canucks enjoying mojitos in Cuba while the Yanks can only send their prisoners there.

Roll with the punches, get on with your day.

– Stuart