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Article

24 Mar 2010

Author:
Jessica Vascellaro, Wall Street Journal

Brin Drove Google to Pull Back in China

Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin pushed the Internet giant to take the risky step of abandoning its China-based search engine as that country's efforts to censor the Web and suppress dissidents smacked of the "totalitarianism" of his youth in the Soviet Union... Mr. Brin reluctantly agreed four years ago to launch a search engine in China that the company would censor to satisfy the government... On Jan. 12, Google said it would stop self-censoring its search engine in China, citing a major cyberattack that appeared to target the email of human rights activists. On Monday, Google began routing mainland Chinese users of its search engine to a site in Hong Kong that the company isn't censoring... On Jan. 12, Google said it would stop self-censoring its search engine in China, citing a major cyberattack that appeared to target the email of human rights activists. On Monday, Google began routing mainland Chinese users of its search engine to a site in Hong Kong that the company isn't censoring... China Unicom Ltd., the country's No. 2 mobile-phone operator, said it wouldn't install Google's search functions into new handsets given its decision to stop censoring. [also refers to Go Daddy]