Google have said in the last day that they are thinking of pulling their website out of China, because of “sophisticated and targeted” attacks originating from China.

We all know how bad China is for its censorship, so i decided to check out Google.cn. I searched for some known banned sites, Facebook, Youtube, Myspace, all seemed to be there. However searching for other things you see the censorship come in. The most obvious thing is porn. I searched for porn on the web, and no porn sites were listed on the first page. I also did a search in Google Images for “hardcore porn” pretty obvious what you are looking for…But no! Nothing dirty at all! Very obviously filtered out. I ran lots more searches and it shows how censored things are.

But Google does not have dominance in China. Google is the big player in the Western World, but in China it is a search engine called Baidu which has the dominance Google has in the West.

Many are suggesting it comes down to money…Google went into the Chineese market and played by their rules to get a marketshare, it hasnt really worked out for them, so insted of putting up with the laws and attacks it is pulling out. If they were making money maybe they would stay…

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