Goes to China

By
Kalyan M chakravarthy
Martyn silue
Agreement with the china Government

• 1998 – Google founded by Larry page and

Sergey Brin. One of its corporate mantras is:
“Don’t Be Evil”
• In the year 2006 Google decided to conduct
business in china on an agreement to provide
a self-censored version (“google.cn”) as
required by the govt of beijing.
 The Great “Firewall” of China
• Google Agreed not to show the results that
are restricted / considered as illegal according
to the Chinese government’s internet
censorship policy ( the great firewall ).
 The Controversy
Critics Blame that Google violated its own values
and philosophy, indicated in their Motto,
“you can make money without doing Evil.”
 Google’s Response
• Google’s objective is to make the world’s
information accessible to everyone, everywhere, all
the time. It is a mission that expresses two
fundamental commitments:
• (a) First, our business commitment to satisfy the
interests of users, and by doing so to build a leading
company in a highly competitive industry; and
• (b) Second, our policy conviction that expanding
access to information to anyone who wants it
 (cont..)
Some governments impose restrictions that
make our mission difficult to achieve, and this
is what we have encountered in China. In such
a situation, we have to add to the balance a
third fundamental commitment:
• (c) Be responsive to local conditions
 Why Business in China
• China is the world’s largest online internet
market.
• China had 210 million internet population
where as USA had 216 million during the year
2007
• 107 million users in china are below the age
25; This is almost half of the online
population.
 Asia-pacific Internet audience 2008
Top 10 properties Searches(MM) Share of searches (%)
Total internet 22,363 100.0
Google sites 8,737 39.1
Yahoo! Sites 5,366 24.0
Baidu.com,Inc. 3,725 16.7
NHN corporation 1,178 5.3
Aloibaba.com corp 488 2.2
Microsoft Sites 401 1.8
Lycos Sites 388 1.7
Tencent Inc. 307 1.4
Friendster.com 273 1.2
Sohu.com Inc 178 0.8

Source: comscore http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2299

Other Internet companies
A Few of Blacklisted/Blocked words
• The Tiananmen Square protest
• The Tiananmen square masacare
• Independence movement of Tibet and Taiwan.
• Falun Gong Movement
• Armageddon
• Bomb
• Handmade pistol
• Nuclear bomb
• Dalai Lama