Although Chinese Internet users can use google.com, having access to google.cn will ultimately be better in the long run
The popular search engine Google has announced its plans to offer a version of its search engine for users in China. Although Google has denied the U.S. federal government
rights to search data, the company has bowed down and agreed to censor
content in order to please the Chinese government. The decision
to release
a censored version of the search engine shouldn't be too shocking;
China has openly kept its intention to censor data no secret.
Some analysts already speculate that the number of Internet search
users in China may
increase from 100 million to 187 million people by 2007.
Chinese
residents have had access to Google.com but the strict restrictions by
the Chinese Government often made searching for items almost
useless. Some of the words that will not yield results include
"free Tibet," "democracy" and "Falun Gong."
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