Google’s Pichai answers to Congress: The good, the bad and the frustrating

Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified in front of Congress this week on transparency and accountability, specifically around data. Here’s an overview.

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Dragonfly: 500+ staff sign open letter for Google to drop new Chinese search engine

More than 500 Googlers globally signed open letter on Medium calling for end to Dragonfly and for “transparency, communication, and real accountability.”

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What do you need to know about Chinese search engine Sogou?

A few days ago, the news emerged that Chinese search engine Sogou is aiming to raise up to $585 million in a U.S. IPO. The news has caused a stir among those keeping an eye on the Chinese tech space; but for those of us who might not be up on the state of search in China, what do you need to know about Sogou? And what does a Sogou IPO mean for the wider search industry?

Baidu SEO: How to optimize for China’s biggest search engine

Speak to pretty much anyone about SEO and the rhetoric will largely be in regards to the “Big G”. But there are countries in the world where Google is not king, and one of them is China. If you want to optimize for the second-largest economy in the world, here’s what you need to know about Baidu, China’s primary search engine.

Eye on China: A Look At Baidu and Sina Weibo

China. Land of noodles, pandas, ravenous industrialisation and economic growth, boundless contradiction, and also a place where I happened to spend nearly five of my fledging post-university years working and travelling while gradually fine-tuning my Mandarin. Since my return to the UK last year I’ve been lucky enough to employ some of the skills I […]

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How China’s WeChat demonstrates the real market potential of messenger services

Does WeChat, China’s mobile text and voice messaging service, show us the future for mobile payment services and exactly why Facebook paid $19bn for the messaging app WhatsApp? Firstly, WeChat is generating serious revenue. It made more than 50 percent of its revenue in 2012 – 44 billion yuan (7 billion US dollars). It is […]

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China Engaged In Total Censorship Campaign Against Google

The cat and mouse game between China, Google and the internet continues. Today and tomorrow are the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Fearing another anti-government uprising, every year at this time China cracks down on its citizens’ ability to access information about the…

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