Article review: Google Tips off Users in China
This article looks at Google as a social service provider to the public. It considers the idea that there is the probability that users use the site as an exchange of ideas, which might trigger public unrest in the Peoples’ Republic of China. The author takes the opportunity to advise the Chinese people to be careful of the information they post using the site. This article mainly provides elucidation as to why the Chinese people have failed to access the Google site, despite the Google authorities having failed to admit the reasons to the Chinese. The Chinese authorities have restricted access to most of the sites in order to censor the information that the public exchanges.
The article claims that the Google market share has been reducing in china because of this censoring. This means that the Google users in the country have reduced in numbers drastically. The article clarifies that the company had reduced its market shares from 36 to 17 percent in one year, 2009. Moreover, the article asserts that, despite the censoring and the drop in terms of market share, Google market in the country is still growing, in comparison to other internet providers, like the Baidu.
The article says that the company has increased its operations that would add the number of their products, which will not require official censorship from the authorities. This is a move that will see the company regain its reduced market share. Despite this idea by Google, the article says that the internet users are still confused about the move, since they think that Google is also censoring the internet users.
The article asserts that Google and other search sites in mainland china have been hampered with; hence have been unstable for at least two years. The officials have restricted the internet use, and they have failed to discuss the restrictions. The officials have only said that the restrictions have to do with the law, as in many other countries around the world.
The article distances the Google Company from the surfing problems and blames the Chinese officials for the internet problems. Therefore, the aim of the article is to prove to the Chinese population that it is not the fault of the Google administrators, but the actions of the Chinese government officials.
CHAO, L. (2012, June 3). Google Tips Off Users in China - WSJ.com. Business News &
Financial News - The Wall Street Journal - Wsj.com. Retrieved July 23, 2012, from
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527023035521045774398
