Image Search Comparison – Google.com Vs. Google.cn

Interesting case study there on the images! Nobody should be stuck with censorship in this day & age; sadly, the world isn't quite there yet.....

Google has not been doing all that well in China, as many have noted in recent days, badly trailing the domestic Chinese search company, Baidu.

In my opinion,using Google is a form of free speech along with generating ideas.
A no-no for China.
This may effect the markets/investors who use the internet and Google for researching products/ services that are on the table for investing.
Eventually this may have a effect on our markets,which I doubt.

google adopted different strategy for different countries

Wow I didn't know there was so much censorship on google.cn, it looks like once they uncensor the site, they will be kicked out.

And I'm glad Google is being kicked out, it's too dominant as it is, someone has to be able to say no to Google.

wow new news for me.....but different result for different country...:)

Another reason that Google has less market share than Baidu in China is that Baidu allows file sharing of copyrighted material, like music files. And Google doesn't. Such file sharing is illegal in most places..

Who cares really? Unless we live in China and we search google.cn.

the result is different due to country location

I am sure now many more and more people came to know about the Tiananmen Square. Because this controversy raise it again.

Tiananmen Square is the best keyword to show how China dominate the Google.

This is something killing freedom of Google as well. Now at least Google will gain some respect at least if they loss the market of china.

Quite a difference.

Anyway, even if Google uncensors Google.cn, that doesn't mean the average Chinese will be able to access it. After all, where is (and where will) Google.cn be hosted? China? California?

Finally, the Chinese Government is the overseer for the .cn registry, right? They can just delete google.cn if they want to.

Or redirect it to http://baidu.com/

I wonder how long it will take for China to erase Google completely from their views

Wow, that sure is a difference!

Linked your article on my site if you don't mind John, this is definitely something I want all my readers to see.

Yeah, Google may escort out of china even before next man.

I see the old communist propaganda machine is still hard at work. The world will never be rid of it sadly.

What a huge difference. I completely disagree with all the censorship that's taking place in China. To the outside world, it's absolutely horrible what they're doing.

What under armed guards??? :D

Amazing the difference, the chinese people don't know what truly went on over there.

This is a very interesting comparison because
images in Canada are not censored. I think that
Google is using Canada as a test subject for this
particular platform of their search

Google would have won China market if the Chinese and its government have an earth-wide perspective. If they think and search as wide as their land only (plus the censorship), then Baidu wins ;-)

Google is a business and is not going to do anything based on morality.

On what basis are you contending that it costs Google $600 million to do business in China. That doesn't seem plausible at all seeing that we're talking about the cost of running a sales office.

Google's only breaking even in China so they're leaving and beating the anti-censorship drum to score goodwill points? C'mon John, you can do better than that. Post something plausible. Being no. 2 doesn't mean you pull out of the market.

Google have been doing some clever moves for the past xx years now ... I think that they know how to create word-of-mouth marketing decision and make a positive experience from a not so positive situtation.

That's a pretty big difference in searches. Is it a coincidence that US search shows military results, and Chinas search shows more peaceful results?