Chinese portal site qq.com has released news (english translation) that Google in China is back in business.
Despite Google reportedly denying it had given staff a holiday, the QQ report says that staff had indeed been given a break but today would be heading back to work. Google says staff were given a holiday last week as the company boosted security of its networks after complaining its Web site had been attacked by hackers.
Google CN reportedly told QQ:
“we put a period to the staff holiday in order to run the tests and scans to ensure safe and reliable network…Google China is now the staff have been back to work post, all business up and running. “
It is important to note that QQ.com, while not being owned by the government, will undoubtedly be greatly influenced by it. What gain the government might receive by announcing Google CN is back at work however is unclear. And if Google CN is officially back to work after a holiday, has the Chinese government provided information to investigate the hacking incident or has Google has agreed on running its China operation under certain conditions? Or both.
This is all so strange, can't wait for someone to spill
Google and China are bringing up a 21st century battle of democracy and freedom verse Communism and restricted personal freedom. When we started using cloud computing systems we saw the HUGE area of security problems being created in cross country internet usage. Thrown in that the entire world is “outsourcing” computer stuff to Southeast Asian countries, and you have a plan for these socio-technology issues going to ahead. We study search demand/supply trends from around the world to find profitable niches and products. A niche, or hot predictions, is not just a demand side issue, but a supply/demand curve. If you predict IPHONE apps will take off, and there are already 100,000 aps, then you aren't going to hit that one. If you see that demand for cell phone radiation shields is going nuts and there are only two suppliers, then you can be pretty sure that it will be a good year for those 2 supplies. The software at http://www.TheInternetTimeMachine.com studies both the demand (search volume) and supply (think “results” in Google). The Google Phone is generating much more buzz right now then say the Apple Tablet.
Cheers,
Curt
Here is a video on what I mean.. http://bit.ly/SupplyDemandCurves
you are laughable, lol “21st century battle”, too much game playing?
Well its good news!Internet attacks are difficult to trace to their source as attackers often use several computers, sometimes in different countries, to cover their tracks. The researchers traced the attacks to the servers used to control software involved in the attack.
The “gain” … saving face of course. By saying “Google is back” implies the Chinese government has an open policy toward the internet and information in general. It helps keeps the Google loyalists (the 30% Google market share constituents) happy since they are the most educated and influential of all Chinese internet users.
Baidu …. most Chinese I know say Baidu is good for finding free music and when that is the objective, they use Baidu. Somehow being nice to Google takes the light off Baidu who was just found not guilty of IP infringement by a Beijing court for providing the searches and links to pirated music and movies. Same court found Yahoo China guilty of that offense a few years back.
Saying “Google is back” is not out of goodwill. There is almost always a broader strategic objective to actions such as these in China.
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