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[Michael-F]

I'm willing to take this (mostly) at face value. I think it would be a tougher decision for them if they were more successful in China, but it's not like they're failing miserably. 20-30% marketshare of the biggest market in the world is a pretty big deal. If anything, money would be the biggest reason for them to stay.

[donp]

Interesting New York Times article about this - seems to be a lot to it.

http://www.nytimes.c...15diplo.html?hp

[chrishirst]

Microsoft to issue IE patch for Google attack flaw

The vulnerability at issue in the cyberattacks that have prompted a showdown between Google and China affects versions 6, 7, and 8 of Internet Explorer, although Microsoft said that attacks have only been successful on systems running IE 6. The company advised IE users to upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 to protect themselves against attacks.

[Daedalus]

Here is an article that talks about the history of Google in China from 2000 until Jan. 21, 2010 and the tension between the two:

http://www.pcworld.c...me_to_this.html

[nuttakorn]

From the current search engine situation is China, Baidu still remaining huge important but as you may heard that Baidu search quality is not good as Google, it may difficulty for big enterprise to beat with smaller players who likely to use blackhat techniques, Do you have any ideas about this?