Google Quit Due To Chinese Censorship

Google is one of the biggest players when it comes to search engines, in China Google employ around 700 people. Google’s latest decision to withdraw from the Chinese market has shocked the world and brought vast media attention to China’s strict censorship laws.

When you use online search engines in the UK the results appear in order of relevance, Google determines how relevant sites are by trawling their content amongst other things. This gives the user the best results and most information in each individual search that they do. There are ways of improving your position with Google and other search engines in the UK, mainly by using tried and tested SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) strategies, even when using tried and tested SEO techniques a site will appear only if it is in some way linked to the phrase the user has searched for.

Chinese censorship prevents Google and other search engines from displaying any results that convey negative opinions about the government, their policies or pages that the Chinese government deems to be detrimental their standing within the Chinese community. This means that Google cannot give users some information that they search for and their relevancy principle becomes tarnished. Although Google no longer operate a Chinese based site users are currently being directed to Google Hong Kong, an uncensored version of Google’s search engine.

Experts predict that Google will now join the ranks of Twitter and Facebook in being blocked completely by the Chinese government.

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