Google in China

The history of compromise

 Before the Google.cn
• In 2000, the Google engineers quietly develop
a system, which would recognize the location
of the users.
• At the end of 2000, a rough Chinese version of
Google.com was born.
• Then in 2001, if you visit Google.com in China,
the server would recognize that and
automatically link you to the Chinese version.
 Before the Google.cn
• In China, Google was really popular for white-
collar workers in the metropolises 。

• But, things went adversity in Sep 3rd 2002. For

the first time ， Google was blocked by the
Chinese government.
 The Great firewall

• after two weeks, the seal was lifted.

• 15 percent of the request to visit Google.com
would be inactive because of the congestion
• the millions of dorms in Chinese universities
do not have the accesses to international
websites.
In 2008, China became the biggest Internet market all over the
world.

In 2010, there are about 400 million netizens in China.

 "Don't be evil"
• One of most famous informal
motto of Google is "Don't be evil"
• (suggested by Google employee Paul Buchheit)

• Google always think that

they are on behalf of the integrity.
But when they face the censorship what would
they do?
• In Thailand, it's not permit to offend the king.

• In Germany, to deny the carnage is illegal.

Google also blocked lots of websites which
support NAZI because of the German law.
Google would help the
800 million poor people
in China know more
about HIV, environment
protection, global market
and so on.
" no information is
also information”
In December 2005 Google
got the permit and
formally entered Chinese
market.
In January 27th 2006, Formally, Google.cn
was put on-line.
• Schmidt stated that Google has a 5000 years'
patience for Chinese market.
but just after 5 years, at the beginning of
2010,Google claimed to withdraw from china
• 1:The quality of service
• 2:the culture gap.
• 3:safety problems.
• 4:the conflicts between the Chinese engineers
and the headquarters of Google.
Whether the Chinese
engineers and the
Chinese branch
deserve respects ?

We are second-class employees!!!

--engineers

We need to protect our intellectual properties.

--leaders of google
2008 Olympic Game
60 years’ anniversary of PRC
• Just couple days before Christmas 2009, a
hacker invaded Google's system and stole
many essential codes, which are so important
that even today Google don't want to publish
the property of these codes.
As the investigation went on, Google found that
this attack was not random but focus on the
persona non grata.

Many important personal information were

stolen by the Chinese government.

They announced that

they would not obey the
censorship anymore.
• “We successfully defeat the risk of open
Internet--and Google. In the past few years,
lots of officials were afraid that Internet could
not be controlled, but this campaign with
Google shows that Internet is absolutely under
the control of us.”