Google to Proceed With Censored Service

Another censorship issue of China comes out, shortly after Google was praised for not complying with a U.S. federal subpoena for its records, how ironic is that? Here is the podcast news text, take a quick look:

The Internet company Google has announced it will offer a censored version of its popular search engine for users in China.

The new service will restrict access to thousands of search terms and websites deemed unfavourable by the Chinese Government.

Company officials said they expect the website to be up and running within China in the next few months.

Websites outside China are often blocked by what is described as the 'great firewall' - a system which isolates Chinese users from the rest of the Internet.

In seeking to compete more aggressively in the world's second largest Internet market - where Google has lost ground to a more popular home-grown search company Baidu - the company is facing the toughest challenge yet to its corporate mantra of "Don't do evil".

In a compromise that trades off Google's desire to provide universal access to information in order to exist within local laws, Google will not offer its Gmail e-mail service, Web log publishing services or chat rooms - tools of self-expression that could be used for political or social protest.

Reference: Answers.com - List of words blocked by search engines in Mainland China.