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考虑关闭中营及网站（附英文）

谷歌考虑关闭中国运营及网站（附英文） 本文网址：http://news.backchina.com/2010/1/13/gb2312_72188.html 
北京时间1月13日早间消息，谷歌在其官方博客上宣布，公司不愿再对其中国版搜索引擎Google.cn的搜索结果进行审查。并承认，这项决定可能意味着Google.cn将不得不关闭，可能连谷歌驻中国的办事处也会关闭。

　　Google to stop censoring in China after cyber attacks
　　Google on Tuesday said it will stop censoring search results in Chinaafter it detected "highly sophisticated and targeted" attacks on theGmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
　　The Internet giant didn't go so far as to accuse the Chinesegovernment, but that seemed to be the allusion. Announcing it will stopcooperating with China over censorship, Google said it acknowledgesthat it may have to pull out of the world's most populous country.
　　"These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered – combinedwith the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech onthe web – have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibilityof our business operations in China," the company said on the OfficialGoogle Blog. "We have decided we are no longer willing to continuecensoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks wewill be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which wecould operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. Werecognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, andpotentially our offices in China."
　　Google said the e-mail accounts dozens of activists of human rightsin China, located not just in China but also in the U.S. and Europe,were found to be accessed by third parties. The December investigationfound that the accounts were not breached, but accessed via phishingscams or malware.
　　Google was not the only company targeted – at least 20 more companieswere attacked, Google said. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company hascontacted those businesses and U.S. authorities.
　　　The surprise move comes after months – perhaps years – of escalatingconcern over censorship in China. Microsoft recently got entangled incontroversy when New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof called forthe boycott of its Bing search engine, after it was found to returnpro-Communist photos in its image search.
　　Google, which is by far the search leader in the U.S. and Europe,claims about 30 percent of the market in China. Chinese search engineBaidu is the dominant player – Bing, for its part, trails far behind.
　　"We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that thebenefits of increased access to information for people in China and amore open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor someresults," Google said Tuesday. "At the time we made clear that 'we willcarefully monitor conditions in China, including new laws and otherrestrictions on our services. If we determine that we are unable toachieve the objectives outlined we will not hesitate to reconsider ourapproach to China.'"
　　It will be interesting to see what Microsoft does in response.Surely, there will be calls for Bing to follow suit and stop censoringChinese search results. But Microsoft did recently peg China as its topsearch priority.

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年度杯具。

真正搞技术有骨气的混不下去，低三下四、摇尾乞铃的才吃得开，什么垃圾地方。

Google宁愿放弃这个巨大的市场来高调挑战愚蠢的审查，不是一般企业能做的决定，证明Google仍然是有理想的企业。看过其总部办公环境照片的同学，一定明白他们有多酷！这一次，是这个企业在天朝做的最酷的事情。

这下败毒笑了。那个不中不洋弄虚作假全是广告的妖怪花枝乱颤了。所有搜索引擎都死绝了也不用败毒。一个搞技术的朋友说：不搞技术不知道，baidu搜出来的那堆屎啊～～

有句话：一个想从你身上赚钱的人都掉头而去，那只能说明你没救了。

消息出来的第二天，G.CN将图标换成了四大发明。寓意为何？