Re: [Vo]:Google's problem in China

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:44:07 -0800

Now Yahoo is involved more deeply in the issue.  See:



"Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) received a stinging rebuke when Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company that Yahoo holds a 39% stake in, turned against its biggest shareholder by publicly criticizing Yahoo's support of Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) recent decision to stop censoring internet searches on Google.cn, Google's China-based site."



On Jan 13, 2010, at 11:19 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:

I hope that Google and the Chinese government reach some sort of deal, and Google does not leave, because that would hurt many Chinese people, especially People We Like, such as scientists. Many of them access the U.S. copy of LENR-CANR.org via Google.cn. A much smaller number use the Chinese government's search tool baidu.com.

Dealing with dictatorships is tricky. You want to help the people in the country and also respect their laws without too many compromises with the government. I think engagement is good. Our trade, contacts and exchanges with Russia during the cold war helped both sides, in my opinion. I wish we were more open with Cuba.

I just tested baidu.com with the word "cold fusion" in Chinese, and a variety of other search terms such as LENR. It finds the U.S. version of LENR-CANR.org, New Energy Times and so on, but not the mirror copy of LENR-CANR at Tsinghua U.

(I can read Chinese to some extent, especially words such as fusion, neutron, heat and so on. They are more or less the same as in Japanese. I can also make out computer related terms, so I can tell what kind of article the search came up with, and whether it is the programming language ColdFusion or my kind.)

Baidu.com also has an on-line encyclopedia. Here is their article about cold fusion, translated by Google:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://baike.baidu.com/view/1391655.htm%3Ffr%3Dala0_1&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8

It is interesting. Pam Boss somehow came out "Pameilamo Hibbs."

- Jed

Best regards,

Horace Heffner




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