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12 Nov 09
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Google China Music Player Gets Makeover Google launched a redesign of their Chinese music player (partnered with Top100.cn), which pops up in a new window when you perform a search at the Music base site. The new player puts more focus on search (results will be loaded in the old window),... |
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28 Oct 09
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Google's Eric Schmidt on the Web's Future ReadWriteWeb wraps up some of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's comments, and shows off a video excerpt. Quote ReadWriteWeb:
Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content.
Today's teenagers are the model of how the web will... |
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12 Oct 09
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Google Cloudboard, a Tested Server-side Clipboard Last week, Google Operating System reported about traces of a currently internally tested Google clipboard of sorts called Cloudboard (I'm lagging on this but Google OS and the rest of blogspot.com is blocked in China, at least at my location; Google... |
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01 Oct 09
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Google Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Founding of PR China We've come along way from Google putting up their Burning Man logo 11 years ago. For better or worse (your call) these days Google's homepages often follow along more of the official national celebrations; on the US Memorial Day this year, Google put a... |
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21 Sep 09
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When Google Gets Musical Here in China I'm amazed by the Google Music site... I can search for all kinds of bands and musicians and get their albums, with songs fully playable in an easy interface (songs playable in China only, that is!). The scope of featured artists doesn't... |
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21 Sep 09
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Google Images China Shows Large Pics Inline Google China's image search is not quite like its US counterpart. When you click on a thumbnail from the Chinese result, a new window opens showing a special Google page*. On this page, the image will be briefly loaded in low quality, and then be quickly... |
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15 Sep 09
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Second Google UFO Logo Google is continuing its UFO logo doodles with one showing a crop circle. The logo is already live in e.g. China (the Chinese search it links to translated to "crop circle"), though I can't see it on the US homepage yet. The file is named "goog_e.gif",... |
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11 Sep 09
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Bigger Google Search Box Google rolled out a new wider search box on their homepage (and SERPs) recently. There's also a bigger font for the box, and a bit more spacing around the search buttons.
Other countries, like China, already have differently sized Google search boxes.... |
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05 Sep 09
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Google China's Kai-Fu Lee Quitting Google Google China's boss, Kai-Fu Lee, is leaving the company... and plans to announce his next project this Monday. A press release mentions Kai-Fu's past work beyond Google:
Dr. Lee has also devoted himself to fostering the professional growth of Chinese... |
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28 Aug 09
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Google Docs Now With Translation Feature Google Docs can now translate documents. Just pick Tools -> Translate document, and then a language (like Chinese, German, English, Italian, Japanese, and many others). A new window will open showing you the automatic translation, and if you like it... |
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23 Jun 09
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Google China Removes Auto-Suggest Following Gov't Anti-Porn Initiative Fingerpointing towards Google in a report by state-controlled CCTV; the user shows how he enters [xing], later stumbling upon scantily clad people in Google Images.
The search auto-completion feature on Google China's homepage was recently removed.... |
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09 Jun 09
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Google Translator Toolkit Google Translator Toolkit is a new tool being launched today to help translators organize their work and benefit from shared translations, glossaries and translation memories, the Google China Blog reports (English translation by Google).
Evidence that... |
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05 Jun 09
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Google's Tetris Logo Google Australia, China and some other places where it's Saturday already are displaying a special logo doodle celebrating Tetris. The alt text reads "Celebrating 25 Years of The Tetris Effect - courtesy of Tetris Holding, LLC", and the logo is linked to... |
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04 Jun 09
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Differences in Google Image Results for Tiananmen Square Protests The first page of the around 44,000 results for tiananmen massacre on the international Chinese version at Google.com:
The 11 results in China on Google.cn for the same query, along with a censorship notice at the bottom: |
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24 Mar 09
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Garfield Lost in Translation, the Blog A while ago I auto-translated Garfield from Chinese and back using Babelfish and Google. Now, someone created a (so far daily) blog showing auto-translated Garfields. |
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09 Mar 09
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Google Was Temporarily Blocked in China Yesterday, Sunday, for over an hour Google.com and Google.cn could not be reached in China. According to Sina, the site was inaccessible from 17:23 to 18:45. Google in a statement quoted by Sina said they researched the cause of this but could not find... |
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23 Jan 09
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Google China Stopped Censoring BBC When you use the "site" operator in a Google web search, you can estimate roughly how many pages Google indexed from a given domain. Entering site:news.bbc.co.uk into Google China for a long time returned 0 results, along with a self-censorship notice by... |
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14 Jan 09
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Google's Real Fight in China Michael Liang Zhang is the assistant managing editor of Global Entrepreneur magazine, where this article originally appeared in Chinese language in November 2008. Michael, whose own "20% percent project" is a blog focusing on Apple, followed Google... |
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12 Jan 09
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Chinese Gov't Pays Users to Comment in Their Interest BBC reports:
China is using an increasing number of paid "internet commentators" in a sophisticated attempt to control public opinion.
These commentators are used by government departments to scour the internet for bad news -- and then negate it.
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06 Jan 09
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Google-powered Laiba's Comments Warning "Lái ba" (来吧) means "come here" in Chinese and is the name of the Google-powered social site by Tianya. (The site is moderated and disallows certain political postings, according to reports from a forum member here previously.) When you want to ... |
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20 Nov 08
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China Tibet Information Center Google-Advertising Its Views On Tibet The Shanghaiist reports:
With political arrows still being shot back and forth between Beijing and Dharamsala [home of the exiled current Dalai Lama], China has been panning out its efforts to win the propaganda battle over Tibet (...)
Lately we've... |
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03 Nov 08
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Google China's Net Cafe Homepages Google China offers several homepage variations, specifically tailored to be shown in Google-partnering internet cafes. For reference here's the Google default homepage at google.cn or g.cn:
Below is one for the affiliate named "icafemedia",... |
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27 Oct 08
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Firefox Extension to Browse As If You Were in China China Channel offers a Firefox extension for those outside of China mainland that aims to let you experience the web -- and the Chinese web censorship -- as if you were within China. Not sure how well this works at all times (for instance, I heard that... |
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19 Sep 08
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Google Stopped Censoring Human Rights Watch in China Entering site:hrw.org into Google China for a long time resulted in a censorship notice instead of a link to the Human Rights Watch organization (Google went live with a self-censored Google.cn in January 2006). Now when I enter that query into Google.cn,... |
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03 Sep 08
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Chrome Links on Google Homepages, With an Error in Germany Google is promoting their new browser Chrome on quite a lot of national homepages, from China to France to the US. In Germany, they temporarily advertised Chrome in the wrong place. Instead of a link below the search box mentioning the new browser, the... |
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13 Aug 08
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YouTube Removing "Free Tibet" Video Due to IOC Copyright Infringement Claim? RevWaldo at Slashdot writes:
The International Olympic Committee filed a copyright infringement claim yesterday against YouTube for hosting video of a Free Tibet protest at the Chinese Consulate in Manhattan Thursday night. The video depicts... |
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08 Aug 08
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Google's Olympic Specials Today is the day of the Beijing 2008 Olympic opening ceremony. Already, Google launched multiple special sites and services for the Olympics. Thanks to everyone providing pointers for this!
Google's main Olympics site
Google's main... |
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07 Aug 08
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Chief of German Olympic Committee Compares China and German Censorship One thing German mainstream news are currently obsessed with (except Cuil -- yes, it's even showing up on German subway station info billboards!) is a statement made by the chief of the German Olympic Committee, Michael Vesper. On TV last Sunday in... |
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06 Aug 08
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Google China Music Search Live Google has released a Music search site for China -- and China only, unless you're using a proxy* to access it. We discovered traces of this a while ago, and the Wall Street Journal also covered Google's plans before. In China, music searching is one of... |
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05 Aug 08
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Google's Olympics Onebox Search Engine Land noticed that Google now shows a onebox* for certain Olympics-related queries, like tennis olympics or taekwondo olympics. This seems to work in the US and China but not, for instance, using normal google.com results from Germany. In the... |
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31 Jul 08
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Garfield Lost in Translation Using the Google translator and the Babelfish translator, here's Garfield automatically translated from English to Chinese and back to English. |
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03 Jul 08
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Traces of Google China's Music Service In February this year, the Wall Street Journal reported that Google wants to "crack" the Chinese market with a music-related offering. "The U.S. search giant is in the late planning stages of a joint venture with a Chinese online music company that would... |
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30 Jun 08
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Google China's Universities Overview Tool The Chinese Google Rebang site -- a listing of hot searches as well as a general info directory -- provides a new research tool for prospective university students in China. The tool is called Gaokao Zhuanti, which can be roughly translated to "Special Subject: College Entrance Examinations." I asked native speaker Aaron Liang from Canada to provide more background info about this, and he says:
When the high school students in China graduate, they need to take a national exam (GaoKao) in June in order to go to college or university. After the ... |
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26 Jun 08
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Google Advertising in China Google used to pride themselves about how word-of-mouth spread popularity of their search engine, and to this day they're doing remarkably little traditional advertising. However, after their ad campaign in Russia now another ad campaign in China has been spotted. Xujie in the forum posted photos from a DWGoogle.cn article, with one pic shown above which includes Google's super-short "g.cn" domain. From an automated translation: "Google China in Guangzhou Subway advertising is to promote Google's mobile search services."
At the moment, purely relying on word-of-mouth in China would be a tough challenge, too, as the business environment isn't completely fair. For ins ... |
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19 May 08
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Google China's Extended Earthquake Help Google China has launched a multitude of help efforts for people looking for information in relation to the disastrous May 12th earthquake centered in Sichuan province. Some days ago, the Google China homepage linked to a special Google Maps layer, as... |
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15 May 08
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Billboard Liberation Front at Google (Video) The Boing Boing blog joined the Billboard Liberation Front and the Monochrom group to erect a "great firewall of China" near the Google headquarters company sign in Mountan View, California. Their work starts at minute 5:
One commenter at Boing... |
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14 May 08
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Google China Homepage Links to Earthquake Information The homepage of Google China links to a special map showing eartquake information.
Auto-translating the homepage text results in: "New! Google launched an emergency situation in the earthquake map, view the latest situation in earthquake relief". |
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07 May 08
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Google vs Baidu Jason Yu provides a break down of some of the differences between Google China and their local competitor, Chinese search engine Baidu. One section compares the products of the two:
Both Google and Baidu are trying to leverage their network effects to... |
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06 May 08
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Google Dictionary Tool for China? The Chinese Google news blog DWGoogle reports that Google is about to release a dictionary tool in China in some kind of cooperation with Kingsoft. This tool (pictured) is an adaption of Kingsoft's existing popular tool PowerWord, and it allows the... |
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29 Apr 08
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Google China Self-Censors Carrefour Many Chinese are currently reportedly angered at France for an attack against a wheelchair-bound Olympic torch bearer that took place in France, as well as Paris awarding honorary citizenship to the current Dalai Lama of the Tibetan Buddhists... so some... |
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29 Apr 08
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Google VisualRank Google researchers at a web conference in Beijing announced they work on some kind of PageRank specifically aimed at images. Called VisualRank, the technology was so far only applied to a smaller test set of images, as apparently applying it to all images... |
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10 Apr 08
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Google China Shows Olympic Torch Run Google Maps China has put up a mini site showing the location of the Olympic torch that's currently being carried over the globe in preparation for the China Olympics. The mini site also links to Google Image search, mobile search, Google Earth, language... |
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10 Apr 08
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Google China Adds Image Search Categories Google.cn has a new feature for image searching: categories. The categories listed on the homepage roughly translate to life style, female celebrities, male celebrities, film & TV series, and games & manga. Click on any of them, and you'll be... |
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09 Apr 08
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Google's Chinese Partner Adds Community Forecasts Chinese social site LaiBa has an apparently new feature: community-based forecasts (also see the English auto-translation, from which the screenshot above is taken). Lai ba means "come here" and is a part of the Google-powered Tianya.cn site. Xujie in the... |
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01 Apr 08
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Google Ad in Beijing Tim Gingrich of the Go Too Far East blog spotted a sanlunche ("a kind of modern-day mechanized rickshaw") showing an ad for Google AdSense.
Tim says the Chinese characters æ'久信任，æºæ‰‹å…±èµ¢ translate to "Forev... |
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29 Mar 08
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New Google China Homepage Google China has a new homepage, as the screenshot illustrates, showing more discoverable icons similar to other Google homepages in Asia. However, I don't know if this new one is the default for Chinese users at google.cn (where I don't see it), or if... |
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20 Mar 08
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Tibet Missing on Google News China Homepage The current news stories evolving around Tibet are the breaking headlines on Google News in many localizations of the service around the world -- including Google News for Hong Kong, Taiwan, and even their China version at news.google.com. However, any... |
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17 Mar 08
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YouTube Blocked in China China blocked access to Google-owned YouTube during the current unrests among those fighting for more Tibet independence, several sources report. YouTube is currently hosting many clips on the issue with user reports, as a search for e.g. lhasa protests... |
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10 Mar 08
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Tech Czar, Blog Translation Network TechCzar.com is a service for tech bloggers which will translate your blog posts into a variety of languages -- like Chinese, German, French, Korean, Spanish and more --, with translations to be hosted at their site. The idea is really neat, I think --... |
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01 Mar 08
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Atlantic.com on Chinese Firewall James Fallows of The Atlantic has an in-depth article about Chinese internet censorship, discussing motivations, the technology, workarounds and problems with workarounds, as well as recent efforts of authorties to losen controls temporarily in some... |
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