Tag / Google
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Russia’s Very Own Search Engine, Yandex
Currently, there are only two countries within which Google is not the dominant search engine: Russia (Yandex) and China (Baidu). Baidu’s success in China is due to the country’s limits on freedom of speech which led to Google’s withdrawal from the country in 2010. However, in every other country in the world (even in North…
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Taking A Gigabyte Out Of Your Brain
Ever since Plato declared that writing will make people “cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written,” humans have had a tendency to criticize the newest methods of disseminating, recording, and representing ideas. The accusations are always similar to Plato’s: the precious internal memory is supplanted by external memory, making retention…
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Big Pooh Bear Is Watching You
You are more than a number. How many times have you heard that phrase ever since starting college? Hopefully not too many. But for China’s 1.4 billion citizens, a single number will not only define who they are, but also determine their way of life. These people will soon live in a chilling reality where…
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Translating Violence
It was 7 p.m. I had just gotten off the phone with family. “Are you doing okay?” “Yeah. I’m fine.” “Okay, I just wanted to make sure. Sheng lu yi si zheng zai naoshi. 圣路易斯正在闹事” My mother was referencing the recent protests that had erupted in response to the St. Louis verdict, where the court…
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The Machine That Won’t Quit: Why Even Google Isn’t Enough to End Chinese Censorship
A few weeks ago, Google stunned the world by announcing that it would consider withdrawing from China completely as an Internet server. For a number of reasons, Google’s statement was a shocker. For years, the company has steadily and firmly maintained that it would not back out of the Chinese market, one of its largest…
