Google about to live up to their motto?

After years of censoring their search results to operate within the law in China it seems that Google might have finally decided to live up to their motto “Do no evil”.

It seems there were some attacks on the gmail accounts of Chinese Human Rights advocates and Google have now decided it’s time for a new approach to China.

Of course if google stops censoring their results they will just be blocked by the “Great Firewall of China”. Baidu, the current number one search engine in China, will take a greater hold of the market. Being a Chinese company there is no chance of them ever returning results the government don’t want the people to see.

Having lived in China I know how difficult it can be to find uncensored news and opinion without employing proxies or vpns to get around the blocking. Google’s censorship however wasn’t 100% and whilst useful things like Google News and Google Cache were unavailable you could still find things the chinese would probably prefer you didn’t see. So the question is; Is no Google in China better than a Censored Google?

It’s a tough one.