The latest stage of Google’s move into China has proved controversial, but Bill Thompson believes it has made the right decision.
So Google has fallen off its pedestal at last.
It took a while, but the company’s decision to launch a Chinese language search engine hosted on servers inside the People’s Republic, one which complies with local law restricting which content can be retrieved, has finally exposed the hollowness of its ambition to “Do no evil” and shown that Larry, Sergey and the others are just capitalist monsters after all.
Forgive me if I refuse to go along with the knee-jerk consensus on this one.