Four Years of Google In China

No matter Google will finally withdraw all business from China or not, I think it is time to review Google’s four-year operations in China. So I made the following list, if I omitted anything important or made any mistake, feel free to leave your comments.

July 19, 2005, Kaifu Lee joined Google, which was also a [...]

Google’s New Approach: Say No to China

Google’s announcement of its new China approach is the biggest tech news today, there are tons of comments and analysis on news, blogs and tweets already. I currently don’t have much more to add to the discussion. I just pick up some posts I read and share with you.
Google’s statement is very controversial, [...]

Google News Chinese Version Adds Subchannel

Google News Chinese Version has just released subchannel, reported Google China Blog. This is the first step in all its language versions. For example, Sci/Tech channel now includes two subchannel, digital and science. Basically all channels have around three subchannels now.
It now looks much like the competitor, Baidu news. It’s single-column, while the international version [...]

Google Ads Help You Remember Its Extremely Short URL

Google China is said to be showing the above advertisement on its netcafe customized homepage to help entry level users remember its single character URL in China: www.g.cn.
Source: Sohu

Google China Partners With China’s SNS on OpenSocial

Just in last post, we wrote about Tianya.cn’s OpenSocial platform, and said it is the third website in China which goes into OpenSocial. In Google Developer Day 2008 in Beijing in yesterday, Kaifu Lee announced Google’s OpenSocial strategy in China.
In addition to MySpace.cn, CityIn and Tianya.cn, seven other Chinese social networking sites will jointly [...]

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