On 4 September 2009, after four years leading Google China, Kai-Fu Lee unexpectedly left to start a venture fund, amid debate about the Chinese government's censorship policies and Google's decreasing share to rival Baidu and Sogou. In March 2009, China blocked access to Google's YouTube site due to footage showing Chinese security forces beating Tibetans access to other Google online services was being denied to users arbitrarily. Google officially entered the Chinese mainland market.įrom September 2006 until August 2016, the office of Google China was a ten-floor building in Kejian Building in the Tsinghua Science Park. On 12 April 2006, Google's Global CEO Eric Schmidt announced Google's Chinese name as " 谷歌" (The Chinese character version of GǔGē) in Beijing. Google used its Chinese name, GǔGē ("harvest song"), but it never caught on with Chinese internet users. On 26 January 2006, Google launched its China-based google.cn search page, with results subject to censorship by the Chinese government. In January 2006, Simplified Chinese Google News was renamed from "Google 新闻" (Google News) to "Google 资讯" (Google Information). On the same day, Google announced that it would set up a research and development center in China.įurther information: Censorship by Google § China On 19 July 2005, Kai-Fu Lee, a former Microsoft executive and the founder in 1998 of Microsoft Research Asia, joined Google and officially became the president of Google China. In addition, Google has an office in the Beijing Fortune Center. In 2005, Google China moved from Xinhua Insurance Building, outside Jianguomen, to Keji Building in the Tsinghua Science Park near the east gate of Tsinghua University, where Google rented two floors. On 10 September 2004, launched Simplified Chinese Google News. On 12 September 2000, Google announced the addition of Simplified and Traditional Chinese versions to and began to provide search services for Chinese users worldwide. History 2000–2006: Launch of search service
3.1 Operation Aurora and 2010 withdrawal.1.4 2016–present: Attempts to come back to mainland China.With sites like Facebook and Google drastically improving their tracking capabilities, your data is becoming more spread out across the web. It’s better to be safe than sorry when it comes to protecting your information from the websites you visit and the search engines you use. Beyond that, by searching in private, you aren’t creating filter bubbles that isolate you from any results that may conflict with your beliefs. There is very little risk that your searches will be leaked to anyone, because most private search engines don’t track any information that can link you to your search terms. That’s why private search engines are beneficial to users. There is an inherent risk in sharing your information with third-parties while browsing the internet. We often hear about internet service providers (ISPs) or the NSA intrusions into citizens’ privacy, but what are we doing about it? It does not use third-party scripts or analytics on its search engine, so only you will know what you searched for. Oscobo fully encrypts your search terms so no one can intercept or decrypt your search terms. Oscobo says that you pay for your searches with your personal data, but you shouldn’t have to. It doesn’t track your information like Google. Oscobo is a search engine created for the sole purpose of protecting user privacy.