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Google Redirects Chinese Users to Uncensored Hong Kong Domain, Tells Chinese Government “See, We Told You Evil Was Relative.”
The decision has been made – Google is no longer willing to to censor its search results in China.
Pinning the decision on the cyber attacks they announced on January 12, and “attempts over the last year to further limit free speech on the web…” Chinese Google users will now be redirected from Google.cn to Google.com.hk – which displays uncensored search results in simplified Chinese. David Drummond. Google’s SVP of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, notes this move “is entirely legal and will meaningfully increase access to information for people in China.”
That is, of course, until the Chinese government just pulls the plug on the whole deal. More »
Posted in Google, Search Engine Marketing
Low-Cost RAID Solutions
Low-Cost, Reliable, and Abundant Storage Spaces
I’m always running into situations- seriously, like weekly, where clients need to find some place to put their files. And it’s not just video people that have this issue, although it’s easy to see why they need more room to put their stuff, it’s businesses of all kinds, storing all kinds of different types of data. Anyone storing any data always has one major concern: they don’t want to lose any of it.
Posted in Backups, Drobo, Mobile, Product Reviews
WordStream Keyword Niche Finder Tool Review
Much like a beehive or beaver dam, PPC account success almost always hinges on the structure of things. I remember back in the good ‘ol days when all you needed was a metric ton of keywords and half a brain to direct a firehouse of traffic to your website.
Those days, sadly, are long gone. More »
Posted in Keyword Research, PPC, Search Engine Marketing, Tools
Smartphone Innovation: Where good applications go to die
The smartphone has assimilated an increasing amount of functionality over the years, from cameras and video, to email, calendaring and the increasingly dizzying array of apps for sale across all mobile platforms. However, more often than not these mobile implementations barely rise above glorified proof of concept demos.
Today I’m looking at two emerging spaces in the app eco-system: advanced mobile IT management tools & mobile virtualization. More »
Posted in Hardware, Mobile, System Administration
The Perfectly Optimized Web Page – An SEO Resource
How do you perfect on-page optimization? Tough question. There’s no canned answer to that, but there are some pretty clearly defined best practices that allow us to check off the critical bits and, naturally, adjust individual efforts from there. What does perfect optimization look like? More »
Posted in On-Page SEO, Search Engine Marketing, Tips and Tricks