After being a media piata over the course of the week, Google has come back firing at its critics, led by a lengthy post by its senior policy counsel, Andrew McLaughlin. The official Google blog Filtering our search results clearly compromises our mission. Failing to offer Google search at all to a fifth of the world's population, however, does so far more severely. Whether our critics agree with our decision or not, due to the severe quality problems faced by users trying to access Google.com from within China, this is precisely the choice we believe we faced. Doug Edwards, the ex-Google staffer who now writes the told delegates at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland that "Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship....I do think information flow is happening in China. ... There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus." Semel Google CEO Eric Schmidt, attending the WEF as is Gates, weighed in on the controversy while taking questions from the Davos audience, IDG document.write("Email Murdok here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo My Web David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.
China Wars: The Googleplex Strikes Back
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