What do you do when your principles and your options don’t match? Yahoo! and the other major search engines are in that situation when they try to do business in China. Read about what brought Yahoo! to this state, and what it is trying to do about it.
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Google Censors China Search: A Dangerous Game
The United States of America is engaged in a fight to spread freedom and democracy. Two notable examples of this are Iraq and Afghanistan, where over a hundred and fifty thousand American troops are deployed. However, this struggle has many more fronts. With Google as the next one, what impacts do we face?
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Censorship in China: Cost of Doing Business?
Google’s creation of a local, censored website in China caused quite an uproar. But it was the last major U.S.-based search engine to do so, after MSN and Yahoo!. Did it really deserve the criticism it received? Is compromising principles simply a cost of doing business? Or is the situation far more complicated than it looks?
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