Google is moving all search records out of China and into the US to protect users of Google.cn website. Google keeps
this data to better track user’s movements within the site, areas of interest, in order to improve user’s
experiences. It is powerful information if it were to get in the hands of the competition, or of Government bodies.
Especially in China.
Google launched the Google.cn China property in January, closely following the
censorship laws of the country, but feels that in order to prevent China's government from accessing the data without
Google's consent, they find it necessary to relocate all queries records to a secure location within the US where is
cannot be touched.
Google Moving Records Out of China
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. Uh...... By doing that, google is risking china to ban their site. Chinese government is already banning a lot of foreign sites. Even blogger.com.
Posted at 12:16PM on Mar 2nd 2006 by Jeffrey
3. Heck, by doing that Google's more likely to have the US government try to find a way to co-opt those search results as intelligence gathering on the Chinese people. I don't necessarily think the data is that much safer here in the US than it would be in China, other than Google fighting a tremendous legal battle to keep the NSA and the DOJ out of the search results.
1. I would have to say that this is an excellent move on Google's part. I commend them for this.
Posted at 11:40AM on Mar 2nd 2006 by Joe