Feb 23
The biggest problem with Google? There’s almost too much information there. Wouldn’t the service be better if there were someone on top deciding what you should and shouldn’t see? Perhaps some manner of overzealous government body that surely knows what’s best for you?
The Chinese government has come up with the perfect solution to its on-going fight censorship battle with Google–it launched its own search engine. The Xinhua News Agency has teamed with state-run China Mobile Ltd. to launch Panguso.com. At present, the site has some pretty stiff competition in from Baidu, which currently controls 75 percent of the market.
Still, Xinhua has some pretty big plans. The agency’s president Li Congjun told The Associated Press that he has some pretty big plans for Panguso. “We would like to fully exploit the advantage of Xinhua as an official agency having a large collection of news and information, and that of China Mobile in terms of technology, advanced operation principles and strong infrastructure.”
Some 457 million people in China have Internet access, making it the world’s largest Internet population.
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