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Google has issued an official statement regarding its business operations in China, specifically its Chinese search portal – google.cn. Specifically, Google told Chinese authorities that it will stop censoring search results on the Chinese Google site. And dependeing on how things will turn out, Google might later be foreced to shut down the said site. In a long post at its official blog site, Google gave three recent discoveries/incidents that prompted its decision to stop censoring search results from its Chinese site. The first one being the fact, it was found out that recent attacks on its corporate IT infrastructure originated from China and that those attacks were not just meant for Google alone. Some other business companies were also targeted. Making things worsts is that based on Google’s investigation, it was also found out that the main objective of the attackers was to access the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Although the attackers were not successful in achieving their target, thanks to Google’s high level of infrastructure security on its products, two Gmail accounts were jeopardized although the activity was limited only to non-essential matters and not the content of the emails. And worst of all has got to be the fact that Google also found out that even accounts of U.S., China and Europe human rights activities were accessed by third parties through malware, phising and other malicious activities. Given these conditions, Google has no recourse but to stop censoring the search results on its Chinese site. But that is of course if Google and the Chinese authorities will agree. If not, then that’s the time when Google will be force to close its Chinese site. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Will Stop Censoring Search Results in
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The Iranian Cyber Army has done it again. Their clever team of hackers has taken hostage of Baidu.com , China’s largest search engine. Baidu, pronounced “Bidu” is to China what Google is to the rest of the English-speaking world. Sources say those in China trying to log onto Baidu.com are currently being redirected to the Iranian cyber Army’s splash page, while people in other countries are still able to log onto Baidu. Some are speculating the search engine was targeted due to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Although nothing has been confirmed, we are leaning towards the idea that the Iranian cyber Army is an undercover Google coy, in which case Google insiders are having a field day. After all, Baidu has led the way with a market share of over 77% , but perhaps not for long. The breaking news comes after the “Iranian cyber Army” (aka Google hackers) successfully hacked Twitter last week. So who’s next? Read more about Baidu, Google’s biggest competitor in China. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Bye Bye Baidu : China’s Largest Search Engine
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An interesting thing happened last week. Scarily enough it was brought to my attention, not from my usual RSS feeds, but rather from my sister, who usually runs screaming from phrases like SEO and online marketing. She was listening to NPR on her drive home from a weekend trip when a news story came on about the recent approval of non-Latin characters in domain names . After hearing this news, I immediately did some research and found some articles related to what the future holds for international domain names and international online marketing. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced on October 30, 2009 that they have approved the introduction of domain names containing non-Latin characters. These domain names will be called “Internationalized” domain names (IDN’s) and, according to Rod Beckstrom, ICANN ’s President and CEO, “This is only the first step, but it is an incredibly big one and an historic move toward the internationalization of the Internet.” Prior to this change domain names were restricted to Latin characters – the 26 characters in the English alphabet, ten numerals, and the hyphen. It will allow nations and territories to apply for Internet extensions reflecting their name and scripts in like Chinese Hebrew, Hindi, and Korean will be allowed in the URLs. Presently these IDN only applies to certain country codes such as .jp for Japan, .cn for China, or .ru for Russia. Top Level Domain (TLD) names such as .com, .net and .gov, for the moment will remain in the Latin character form. Why do we
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