a thing wrote:1. They obeyed the Chinese government's censorship requests.
The other option is to withdraw from china completly...
any major search engine, especaily a native chinese one is still gonna be censored in china
However, i think they could have made it a good thing, by purposly making their filters kinda crap...
i admit, if they have *really good* filters, this was a bad thing to do, moderate, and its not god or bad, but if they have fairly crap filters, then this aint so bad
a thing wrote:2. They release proprietary software.
err, i dont totaly think thats a bad thing... it depends what you do with the proprietary software...
only software i can think of that google released is google earth, and i tihnk that could be replaced by nasa "world wind"?
which is open source, but may be windows only, i dunno...
google desktop... i dont want that though
oh yeah, something i really do quite like about google - the ads
seriously, remember back in the old days?
NEON FLASHING BANNERS EVERYWHERE!!!!
i tihnk the nice lil text ads are much nicer...
still, both your points are acceptable to me, at least to the point where i dont directly disagree with them
