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Now you tell us: Google co-Founder Brin realizes bowing to Chinese dictators not such a good idea

Davos brings out frank comments sometimes.

Posted by Siva on January 28, 2007 02:30 PM | Permalink

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I love the word-smithing: it was a "net negative" on a "business level." I prefer all my moral decisions to be scrutinized through a commercially-focused cost-benefit analysis....

Posted by: michaelzimmer | January 28, 2007 02:44 PM

As a salesman, I will state, categorically, that you should never, ever trust anyone who is trying to sell you something.

You know this moralizing on Brin's part is a bunch of crapp. Google won't hesitate to assist any corrupt regime in censorship as long as they think they can make money at it. This is a great example:

www.google.com.sa Try and find some porn there, or anything positive about the State of Israel, or anything negative about the Saudi monarchy.

Google's problems in China have nothing to do with censorship. The problem is that they can't compete against Baidu, long term. They haven't been able to come to any kind of working arrangement with the Chinese government on either market share or profit sharing and they will probably leave that market at some point in the near future. Sergei's mea culpas are nothing more than posturing for when that day arrives.

Posted by: Jardinero1 | January 28, 2007 05:27 PM

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