Comments on: Google Threatens to Withdraw From China – My Thoughts

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:48:56 +0000

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By: Tamahome Jenkins

Tamahome Jenkins — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:13:51 +0000

No matter what Google PR says, it’s all about the money. They can say what they want, but the fact is that they are in second place in China despite the fact that they are spending tons of money there. This whole thing is just a means for Google to pull out gracefully while getting some free press at the same time. I don’t care what anybody says, Google is still a publicly traded company that has to answer to their shareholders.

By: Mike Perry

Mike Perry — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:39:08 +0000

I’m sure you are right, Google know exactly where the problem lies but are unlikely to point the finger.

A while back I had a problem with comments from China on one of my blogs. I had mentioned China and human rights in the same sentence. The post pulled in 4000+ hits in one day and hundreds of comments from, what I presumed to be, Chinese people. Google immediately hit my search engine placing and my regular 100-200 daily Google referrals vanished to nil.

Google has it’s own form of censorship and not just for China.

Interesting post,
Mike.

By: Young

Young — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:32:11 +0000

Google just find a way to withdraw from China.

By: Rod Macbeth

Rod Macbeth — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:26:44 +0000

This is a good thing in my view. It’s about time some of these large corporations starting thinking about more then the almighty dollar.

Bravo, Google.

By: Kaylee

Kaylee — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:45:10 +0000

My accounting teacher would love this; she’s always talking about Corporate Social Responsibility.

I think it’s a good move on Google’s part, even if they have ulterior motives, and won’t hurt them in the long-run. The 1% drop isn’t worrying; I’m sure investors get jumpy when there’s any sort of news that isn’t clearly positive… And 1% is not much compared to the 15% drop when they censored their content!