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Google Will Stop Censoring Search Results in China,

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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Google Planning to Buy DocVerse

Citing reliable sources,   TechCrunch is reporting that Google may be on the brink of acquiring yet again another company. Interestingly, this company called DocVerse provides service that allow users to work together around Microsoft Office documents. And if this push through, DocVerse will be receiving around $25 million from Google. DocVerse was founded by Shan Sinha and Alex deNeui who are both former Microsoft product strategist, with Sinha was connected with Microsoft’s SharePoint and SQL Server, while deNeui was worked on Microsoft SQL Server web strategy. What’s interesting is the fact that DocVerse may be overlapping in functionality with Google Docs. Both Google Docs and DocVerse allow users to collaborate real time on documents. But this could very well be traced to the fact that Microsoft is planning to push this feature to Office 2010 to compete with Google Doc. So, there’s no other way for Google to retaliate to this by acquiring DocVerse since Google Docs can’t pretty much compete with Microsoft Office 2010. Although the deal was said to be not finalized yet, it is already in the works. So expect Google to announce this purchase probably this week. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Planning to Buy

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