Google Sr. Policy Council Responds to China Controversy

[! search-engines-web]

Google users in China today struggle with a service that, to be blunt, isn't very good. Google.com appears to be down around 10% of the time. Even when users can reach it, the website is slow, and sometimes produces results that when clicked on, stall out the user's browser. Our Google News service is never available; Google Images is accessible only half the time. At Google we work hard to create a great experience for our users, and the level of service we've been able to provide in China is not something we're proud of.

This problem could only be resolved by creating a local presence, and this week we did so, by launching Google.cn,
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-in-china.html

[Jojo]

I am wondering why Google.cn is forwarding me to Google.com?

On Google.cn-Images I see the well known images of Tiananmen (http://images.google.cn/images?hl=zh-CN&inlang=zh-CN&q=Tiananmen&btnG=%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2&sa=N&tab=wi). So i assume I do not see the same Google.cn-results as the Chinese?

[Wit]

I presume they are geotargetting, rather than just messing with google.cn resuls. Try browsing through a Chinese proxy (if you can find one) :)