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Re:Apple CEO backs China’s ‘open’ Internet vision as censors... by Intermernet on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @02:53AM (#15850469)
My (admittedly cursory) search on this shows that Baidu's "fake hospital" scandal seems to be a problem with Baidu, not with Google quitting China. Is there evidence to even suggest that if Google search were available in China at the time then people would not have died?

I can't offer an opinion on whether or not Google should have tried to maintain more presence in China, but the link between them leaving the market and some people believing dodgy search results from Baidu and basing their critical medical treatment on said results is spurious to say the least.

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Re:Apple CEO backs China’s ‘open’ Internet vision as censors... by schuke on Sunday December 17, 2017 @08:33PM (#15948757)
It's basic economics. Baidu is a monopoly in China's poorly regulated search market. Google before quitting had a market share of 33%. People would at least have had different results to check against Baidu's had Google stayed. Baidu's aggressive and dishonest false ads are closely--if not directly--connected to Google's quitting.
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