Carrefour, also banned at Baiduby Colin Zhu via FlickrI was more than a bit amazed to see quite some chatter on the fact that Google.cn has also officially blocked the word "Carrefour" as a sensitive word. According to me this is a storm in a tea cup.
When Googled created a few years ago a censored edition of its search engine for China, the world was up in arms. How could a company like Google, the ultimate firm who did not want to do any evil?
Well, it happened anyway and since in China both Google.cn and Google.com were and are available in China and - surprise, surprise - most Chinese internet users used domestic competitor Baidu anyway. Those who picked Google, used Google.com and the traffic to Google.cn was rather smallish.
Now, the censored Google search engine nobody has also started to censor the word "Carrefour". I just fail to see what the news is. It is just a very lazy way of generating sensation, without a real basis.
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