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Skepticism Greets Google's Attempt to Deal With Censored Terms in China - NYTimes.com ;.. “The Yangtze River itself, as well as organizations like Yangtze River Securities and Yangtze River University, are all collateral damage,” she wrote, adding that Google’s move is likely in part a business decision to lure back users who have grown frustrated at problematic searches.
Dave Lyons, an expatriate in China who writes for the Rectified.Name blog, also voiced skepticism. “While many people in China know that Google doesn’t always work because of government blocking, I’d bet that the vast majority of Internet users don’t know, or care for that matter, because if you’re planning a vacation to [丽江] where you want to stay in a [锦江之星] which search engine are you going to use?” he wrote, using phrases that include the problematic Jiang character. He suggested that Google’s warning message was instead intended to create “warm, fuzzy feelings about Google” in the “halls of Internet governance organizations.”
“If Google were serious about this,” Mr. Lyons wrote, “they would develop their own built-in circumvention tools, but they won’t — because that’s a bridge too far.”
China’s largest search engine, Baidu, has been accused of conducting its own internal censorship in order to conform with the government’s, allowing it to streamline its searches.
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