Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
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Re: Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
#2Sad, but ultimately unsurprising
Re: Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
#3I wonder if Chinese people will be able to search for Winnie the Pooh.
Re: Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
#4So what had fundamentally changed here? Is it just that China is a bigger market now? Did Google think they actually had enough leverage to get the Chinese to back down? Are the founders simply less idealistic than before?
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#5So what had fundamentally changed here? Is it just that China is a bigger market now? Did Google think they actually had enough leverage to get the Chinese to back down? Are the founders simply less idealistic than before?
Maybe a few billion of fines here and there make you rethink your sources of revenue?
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#6Too late...
They will never overtake Baidu, who have leaks of Googles algorithm, more data to train AI on, government support, an existing (better) product in asian languages, and a massive userbase.
Re: Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
#7A tactically-'ethical' startup of the near future's motto: "Don't be Google".
Re: Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
#8Too late... They will never overtake Baidu, who have leaks of Googles algorithm, more data to train AI on, government support, an existing (better) product in asian languages, and a massive userbase.
> who have leaks of Googles algorithm
Sounds plausible, got any sources on that?
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#9What does "censored" mean in this context? No anti-communist or anti-party propaganda?
Personally I feel that Google has slowly become more and more censored over the recent years, to the point that I do searches on multiple search engines if I'm not so sure about the Google results.
More than often there's not only a filter-bubble in my results, but there's more and more sites that suddenly disappeared over the years, but are high-ranking on DDG, Bing, Yandex, ... — especially in February / March 2018 there was a kind-of-extreme disappearance of sites in the results where I previously used Google to get to them.
Re: Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
#10Too late... They will never overtake Baidu, who have leaks of Googles algorithm, more data to train AI on, government support, an existing (better) product in asian languages, and a massive userbase.
I'm sure they'll be able to overtake Baidu. Baidu's search product is terrible. The results are almost always unusable. The only times I find them useful is when it links to a quora-equivalent website where someone has asked your exact query.