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A comment on Sergey Brin's Clarification On Guardian article. Parent comment

Re:Sergey Brin's Clarification On Guardian article by Tloewald on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @07:42AM (#3857466)
Google have entered the Chinese market, compromised their values and still got their asses handed to them by Baidu, then pulled out. Not quite the same thing.
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Re:Sergey Brin's Clarification On Guardian article by dnda on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @08:07AM (#3857524)
Care to support your theory with numbers and facts?
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Re:Sergey Brin's Clarification On Guardian article by pyre on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @01:50PM (#3859270)
Google was in China until their internal network was (supposedly) compromised by the the Chinese Government. This is a fact.

Google was not the #1 search engine in China. This is also a fact.

Whether they 'got their ass handed to them' is another story, which could be supported by numbers, though it's somewhat subjective.

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Re:Sergey Brin's Clarification On Guardian article by Tloewald on Thursday April 19, 2012 @06:23AM (#3862237)
Google made a deal with the Chinese government to censor search results - also a fact.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-bows...

Google's penetration in China was very low (we've had native Chinese speakers living with us for the last three years and they had hardly heard of Google).

Not only is Google's share in China low, it's falling.

http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/02/23/sizing-up-two-internet...

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