Meng Yan ( 孟岩 )’s Weblog

看到这则新闻，想起了这个电影 – “Final Destination”。Yahoo – MSN – Google … …

Update：Abstract some from “Google in China” – Official Google Blog

Google users in China today struggle with a service that, to be blunt, isn’t very good. Google.com appears to be down around 10% of the time. Even when users can reach it, the website is slow, and sometimes produces results that when clicked on, stall out the user’s browser. Our Google News service is never available; Google Images is accessible only half the time. At Google we work hard to create a great experience for our users, and the level of service we’ve been able to provide in China is not something we’re proud of.

This problem could only be resolved by creating a local presence, and this week we did so, by launching Google.cn, our website for the People’s Republic of China. In order to do so, we have agreed to remove certain sensitive information from our search results. We know that many people are upset about this decision, and frankly, we understand their point of view. This wasn’t an easy choice, but in the end, we believe the course of action we’ve chosen will prove to be the right one.

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Filtering our search results clearly compromises our mission. Failing to offer Google search at all to a fifth of the world’s population, however, does so far more severely. Whether our critics agree with our decision or not, due to the severe quality problems faced by users trying to access Google.com from within China, this is precisely the choice we believe we faced. By launching Google.cn and making a major ongoing investment in people and infrastructure within China, we intend to change that.

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Obviously, the situation in China is far different than it is in those other countries; while China has made great strides in the past decades, it remains in many ways closed. We aren’t happy about what we had to do this week, and we hope that over time everyone in the world will come to enjoy full access to information. But how is that full access most likely to be achieved? We are convinced that the Internet, and its continued development through the efforts of companies like Google, will effectively contribute to openness and prosperity in the world. Our continued engagement with China is the best (perhaps only) way for Google to help bring the tremendous benefits of universal information access to all our users there.

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前两天，看到Google Blog中的一篇文章 – "Googlebombing ‘failure’"，很有意思:

If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. We’ve received some complaints recently from users who assume that this reflects a political bias on our part. I’d like to explain how these results come up in order to allay these concerns.

Google’s search results are generated by computer programs that rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them. By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush’s website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. We don’t condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we’re also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don’t affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission.

由于Googlebombing，当你搜索"failure"或者"miserable failure"的时候，布什的名字会出现在搜索结果的第一条，不过Google不愿意去为了防止这样的结果而进行人工干预。

这是题外话了，不过让我想起了Hengge说的："Google, 总是有那么一点不一样"。

前天，Google悄悄发布了Google Wifi，很多人猜测这可能是Google看中的又一个方向。Google提供给你免费的WiFi接入，代价是获取你的访问信息，比如你身处何地。得到这些信息，Google可以把附近的餐馆、酒店、超市（甚至超市里面的商品）等广告推送给你，再加上Google Maps和Google本地搜索，我在想，也许这就是Google所设计的一种广告模式。

那天Jack发给我Google的招聘信息，我发现专门有一个无线开发工程师，不是巧合吧:P。

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