Chinese Search Giant Baidu Launches International Sites 38
jfruh writes "Baidu, a company that offers a search engine, a Wikipedia-style user-edited encyclopedia, and other online services, is a household name in China. Now the company is seeking to gain ground on Google in the rest of the world, opening local search sites (in local languages) for Thailand, Brazil, and Egypt."
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More international warez! And malware!
Or the prequel to Firefly.
Re:What do we get? (Score:4, Interesting)
More international warez! And malware!
I don't know if this deserves to be negative - I had to do a really dumb malware removal on a POS system, and the majority of the trouble was coming from software that was branded Baidu. Here in the middle of the great plains, at a Mexican Restaraunt.
It had several hidden portions that hijacked the browser, too, not to mention popup ads. Most cleanup tools didn't work on it, either - we ended up getting down and dirty with it and removing things manually as we discovered them.
I don't really know why I mention this, apart from to say that I dislike Baidu and I'm not at all surprised at any accusation of them being malware-ridden.
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So what you're saying is we should block anything Baidu at our front door now while we can? I'm all for it.
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But Baidu is less likely to be in bed with the NSA, so there's that.
Question (Score:2, Funny)
Will that be with or without censorship?
Re:Question U.S. censorship? (Score:1)
Will that be with or without censorship?
You mean like the U.S. censorship? and U.S. Internet providers self-censorship? Let's put this straight. What country kills people randomly. What country locks people up indefinitely without trial. What country tortures prisoners. What country spies on its own people monitoring everything its people do. The answer is the U.S., people in glass houses should not throw stones. 1980s: There’s been a bomb in Oxford Street! and in the days before Al Qaeda, there is only one prime suspect. The U.S.A. spon
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Yes, US is guilty of everything you listed. We can talk about all the past and present failed US policies. We can openly criticize the policies. For those of us who live in the US, we can even openly organize to remove the politicians in questions. That is the difference between democratic nations and authoritarian countries.
Like the old saying, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." US has certainly slipped but it is still far ahead of China is terms of basic civil rights for all.
"Search giant" (Score:2, Insightful)
They are only a giant because their government does not allow anyone else to participate. I'm not sure how they are hoping to translate this business model to countries not ruled by paranoid kleptocracies.
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Well that's easy. They'll work to help the government turn into one of those. They have experience in maintaining one, how much harder to could it be to offer up the same "services" to those in power and sit back to watch the results?
Good news (Score:2)
Re:Good news (Score:4, Insightful)
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Apples and oranges my friend.
Reminder (Score:1)
It is rude to randomly redirect visitors to beta.slashdot.
Even more so because beta sucks.
Providing a hard to find opt-out, adding /?nobeta=1 to the url, just upgrades the aggravation level from "rude" to "insulting and infuriating".
The only acceptable option is, as always, opt-in.
I guess you need reminding. a lot.
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If slashdot forces that on its users, I'm pretty sure it will cause a significant exodus.
I couldn't even find the login on my laptop, turns out the whole top menu, except for the slashdot logo, disappears if your browser isn't almost full-screen.
Who to trust more? (Score:1)
American NSA or Chinese NSA. Hmmm.... *ponders*
Yeah thanks (Score:2, Insightful)
But I think I'll stick with the search engine that allows people to search for Tiananmen Square.
So we can choose what government will spy on us (Score:1)
Should I choose being spied by the Chinese or US governments? Hey, I can have BOTH, now!