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How did search bloggers judge upon Google’s censorship in China?

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How did search bloggers judge upon Google’s censorship in China?

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Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch wrote: “Ultimately, I want Google to pull out and fight back. I can see the argument for being engaged in a country, for trying to help promote change over time. But I feel like Google should be big enough and principled enough to be engaged by not being engaged. That might do far more good now than years down the line.” Ionut Alex. Chitu argues: “Somebody told me that google.com is still available in China. So users have 2 options: [1] go to google.com and see results they can’t access [or 2] go to google.cn and see only the results they can access. I think this changes things a lot. Google doesn’t censor results, they just remove ’inaccessible links’ (’dead links’ in China).” John Battelle of Searchblog said: “Sure, I understand the logic. But, well….in your heart, is this what you wanted to do? No? Then why did you do it? (…) I think they convinced themselves it was the right thing to do. They thought themselves into it. And deep down, they

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