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龙来了
Jan 26th 2006
From The Economist print edition
Google, the internet search engine that has grown into a corporate giant, began operations in China on January 25th. Though critics suggest it has betrayed its own motto - “don’t be evil” - by agreeing to censor certain sites, Google maintains it will do more good than harm
已经成为公司巨人的国际互联网搜索引擎——Google,1月25日启动了在中国的业务。尽管评论家认为,Google违背了自己的箴言——“别干坏事”,因为它同意对一些特定的站点进行审查,但Google公司坚持认为这样一来将利大于弊。
IN 2001 human-rights activists in China crowed that a little-known search engine called Google was the most important tool ever created to skirt state censors. Users could retrieve content that Beijing banned by clicking to call up a “cached” copy of the web page, stored by Google. Soon, however, Google itself was being sporadically blocked. The firm was instructed to deactivate that particular feature, and for a short time its web address was even re-routed by Chinese network operators to the website of a local rival.
2001年,一种鲜为人知的、名叫Google的搜索引擎成为那时被用来避开国家审查的最重要工具。中国人权激进分子为此而幸灾乐祸。用户可以通过点击打开由Google存储的“缓冲存储”网页备份,从而重新获得被政府封杀的相关内容。不过,Google公司自己很快也被不定期关闭。该公司接到通知,要求它取消那种特定功能,并且中国网络运营者甚至曾一度将该公司的网址链接改到一家中国本地搜索引擎(google的竞争对手)上。