Google threatens to withdraw from China.
Google has openly said that it can withdraw from China if needed. This statement has come after Google found some involvment of chinese government behind the hacking of Gmail accounts of some social activists. Google was already pissed off by the cencorship imposed by chinese government on the search result in china. You might not get any search result for Tibet or Dalai Lama or Tank man. However after this statement many disputed results are available in search results in Google China. Due to various regional pressure google search results have been different for different regions. A common example is – If you search for Indian state Arunachal Pradesh on Google Map in china, it is shown as a part of Republic of China. Same search shows Arunachal pradesh as Indian territorry in Google India. And the most irritating as well as hilarious thing is that Google in United States shows Arunachal Pradesh as a disputed Territory. I was amazed by looking at these biased search results.
Recently India has condemened Google for showing Arunachal Pradesh as Chinese Territory and warned to take action against the firm.
Google withdrawing from China seems completely impossible as China is a big market for internet users and internet advertising as well. Nor China can afford to lose Google as it can reder many unemployed in China and hamper the chinese interest a well. China assured that it will take care of foreign comanies investing in their country.
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