Thursday, February 15, 2007

Fake Google

We have written on a number of occasions about IPR challenges for the media business in China. We were amused but not surprised, then, to be directed by the Virtual China blog to a not-quite-Google site. Type in the Google China URL back-to-front (google.cn.com instead of google.com.cn) and you will find the following page complete with ad links to Shenzhen call girls:Firefox blocked a pop-up at this point. So, discretion got the better part of valour and I pursued it no further. So, I don't know if there is any kind of real search engine at all here (probably not).

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I agree with you only on occasional grounds as see many of the firms just hire the SEO company for getting higher google rank....and to which even google has no criteria to stop...See as an example.aquabot firm has lot of specialization in the respective field but is still lagging far behind their competitors....

Anonymous said...

Sometimes I too question google methodology..Its really appears weird..man..sounds as if paying for links might be the better option in this way..