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Google一直都讓人有Cool、創新、反微軟等感覺,但他們今天終於面對群眾的壓力。儘管他們在自己的Blog中「解釋」了為何建立中國版Google,但只要看看Bloglines中對這篇文章的Citation,大家就知道群眾是如何對待Google。
近日有一個名為Oepn Letter to Google的Blog面世。暫時那兒只有一個Blog Post,十分簡單的說:
We don’t want Google to censor search engine results. Not in China and nowhere else in the world.
雖然該Post這麼簡單,但該十分多人回應,現在已經有超過200個留言。群眾壓力可真不少!
Jeremy Zawodny在「Has Google Lost Its Soul?」引述Google Blogscoped談論Google在Help Page中沒有了有關Censorship的網頁,只用以下的原因解釋他們過濾新聞的原因:
It is Google’s policy not to censor search results. However, in response to local laws, regulations, or policies, we may do so. When we remove search results for these reasons, we display a notice on our search results pages. Please note: For some older removals (before March 2005), we may not show a notice at this time.
Google已經Evil?Jeremy的立論十分好:
We all knew it was a matter of “when” not “if”.
我們一直寄望Google不Evil,但在商言商,他們終究是要賺錢的。當我們責難Google已經邪惡時,我們有沒有問自己對他們的寄望是否不設實際呢?
延伸閱讀:
關內關外 (亞當閒話)
Why Google in China makes sense (BBC)
when is a search engine not a search engine? (librarian.net)
China, Internet Behavior, and Censorship (Traffick)
补一篇:
http://cetamac.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-is-not-evil-while-nor-god.html