The plight of googlenomics
The recent and rapid development of google exit-gate has grabbed my  
attention much tighter than the dreary quarterly report and I reckon  
rightly so. Even though I'm normally a pretty nonchalant kinda guy  
towards these plays of corporate upmanship and courting in search of  
market share and profit, I do harbour a great deal of goodwill towards  
google, let's be clear. Throughout my colored career i have almost  
relied on google to get me through the vast majority of tough issues.  
Be some sample code search, a few journal search, background check,  
news trail findings, rss goodness, image nonsense and early top gear  
episodes in now defunct google video, to the most grateful Berkeley  
dudes answer through google answer (also now defunct), I have  
countless examples of how google has indeed make my own insignificant  
life infinitely better and not costing me a single cent. I'm not a  
frequent user of google.cn coz to me it really just a communist dumbed  
down version of the better google. Even the layout of google.cn is  
backward and very 90's. Still i would bet my bottom dollar it's  
hundred times better than the baidu crap. I'm never one to be on the  
Chinese government side when it comes to Chinese issues, but this time  
it just seemed even uglier. Exceptional circumstances must exit to  
aggravate the situation for google to take such drastic measure. Any  
profit making market with a potential to grow warrants a careful and  
long term tratment by the hq and google isn't stupid. The key question  
is why GCD may wish to push the case to such extremes for google. I'm  
sure google was complying to the best of their calculated abilities to  
various censorship requests and back door leaking orders so the GCD  
keeps a tap on Chinese google users. Wot more could they want or need  
above those human rights abusing censorship needs they already placed  
on google?could they just simply want google to play the role of  
eternal small player foreigner company and never threaten baidus  
domination so they won't have to increase reources to monitor google  
which is ultimately us-owned? Ie, they don't want google to grow any  
more than the 27% or 33% of the market share they already own? They  
foresaw a google.cn that will eat baidu alive? These speculations  
might never find answers. The stupendous lack of compentency in both  
understanding and management of the information indstry could also be  
another plausible possibility which explains the inability to  
effectively manage the industry growth. As other bloggers already  
said, this is to me an eerie display of bridge burning behaviour to  
the z-th degree. Any reasonable attempt to continue operating as the  
status quo will probably be remote if not obliterated after such  
public revelation of hatred towards Chinese state authorities. Can  
google or china live without each other? Totally google probably could  
try to enter the market in other joint venturey forms askin to yahoo  
and amazon, but then it wouldn't be a very googley thing to do. The  
real loser is indeed the poor Chinese internet suffers. These buggers  
will never had the tools I had in my disposal when looking for  
answers, wasting time image search, lose time on google news, pinpoint  
free code, use the best calendaring and cloud based office suite. But  
then again Chinese can just counterfeit these as well, because nobody  
will sue anyway.

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