Varun Daahal - Google in China

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Google in CHINA

By

VARUN DAAHAL K* All the data is collected from Internet. I don't hold any ownership. Analysis is purely based on my understanding and perception



GOOGLE Inc.,

Incorporated in 1998

by

Sergey Brin & Larry Page

Google hosts & develops

A number of internet

-based services &

products

a global technology leader focused on improving the ways people

connect with information.



CHINA Inc.,

� Population > 1.6 Billion

� Joined WTO in 2001

� Committed to Economic Reform

± abolished market Impediments

± Lower tariffs

became an attractive market



Journey.. into CHINA

�Yahoo! First entered China in 1999

� Baidu incorporated on January 18, 2000, is a Chinese web

services company in Bejing

� Sohu.com is a search engine company incorporated on August

2000 in Bejing

�Google entered china in 2001



301, 302 Redirects 404, 503 Error

� Google worked very hard to create great experience for users

But

�Google.com appears to be down around 10% of the time

� when users can reach it, the website is slow

� sometimes produces results that when clicked on, stall outthe users browser

� Google Images is accessible only half the time



GOOGLE BACKEND

» Google Fundamentals

� Google's corporate culture

� "you can make money without doing evil,

� "you can be serious without a suit," and

�"work should be challenging and the challenge should befun.

� Mission :

to organize the worlds information and make it

universally accessible and useful

� Informal Corporate Motto: Dont be Evil

�Principles before Profit



CHINA BACKEND

� China maintains diplomatic relations with most major countries in

the world

� Politics : Communist Party - totalitarian regime

( with heavy restrictions remaining in many areas like:

the Internet, the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion )

� Ongoing challenge:

± How to maintain its tight control of all major institutions, while

allowing the free flow of money and information required in a

market economy.



Name of the Game

Censorship

China took a two-pronged approach to censoring the Internet

1) First, authorities restricted the production, development, and

dissemination of improper content.

2) Then, authorities monitored the perusal of content or receipt of

information.

Harmful content included material concerning

democracy (e.g., freedom),

religious cults (e.g., Falun Gong),

or antigovernment protests (e.g., Tiananmen Square)



Google Move

� Google.com that was housed in the United States but that

could handle search requests originating within China.

Chinas Move

� Great Fire wall of CHINA, with help of CISCO



The Fork move : Chinese Google.

� Baidu, (mentioned in the beginning)

meaning 100 times,



Google & Other moves

� Google involved outside experts on china

� Called upon talented in-house engineers

� Gathered mindful of Potential pitfalls they could face

� Launched google.cn, Chinese version locatted in china

� hackivists, in China

� Many used proxy servers

� Psiphon software to send & receive encrypted messages to

a trusted computer in another countries� DynaPass, UltraSurf, Freegate, and Garden Networks

softwaresby word of mouth, radio, or underground

newspaper.



CHINAS Counter moves

� Imposed Various yet Vague Rules

� Cisco helped develop PoliceNet

� 35,000 Internet Police

� JingJing, Chacha Police officers ( On Computer screen)

� Public pledge of Self Regulation & Professional Ethics

� Installing software in all cyber cafe's & submitting ID proofs for

browsing

� $800 million Golden shield for Surveillance



In the End

� Google had agreed to Chinese censorship demands only after

authorities successfully blocked access to Google.com

� Finally In January 2006, Google.cn, which was located in Chinawas actively subjected to Chinese filtering

Now,

� Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected toGoogle.com.hk,







Any Queries?



Information SOURCES

� Business Round Table Case study on Google Inc.,

� Green leaf Publications: Google on how to deal with China

� http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu

� http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China



Pro-Democracy Movement

� A mass protest in Tiananmen Square, a large plaza in the

center of Beijing. On the night of June 3 and the morning of

June 4, the Chinese government responded with a massive

display of military force� Tanks over-ran the square and the streets leading to it, and

soldiers opened fire on protesters, killing as many as 3,000

and injuring thousands more. The crackdownknown as the

June 4th incident or sometimes simply as Six-Four

effectively suppressed the pro-democracy movement.



China Ruling party



Goole Moves, Other Moves

� hackivists, these groups and individuals had developed a

number of increasingly sophisticated techniques for defeatingthe firewall

� Many used proxy servers as intermediaries between Chinese

users and blocked websites.

� University of Toronto developed software called Psiphon to

allow users to send encrypted messages to a trusted

computer in another country and receive encrypted infor-

mation in return

� DynaPass, UltraSurf, Freegate, and Garden Networks

softwares & News of these technologies traveled the old-fashioned wayby word of mouth, radio, or underground

newspaper.

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