Google reportedly plans aggressive move back into China

[bobsm]

This crawling back was expected, since you can never ignore the world’s largest internet market.


Google reportedly plans aggressive move back into China

by OWEN WILLIAMS Tweet — 23h ago in GOOGLE

Google left the Chinese market loudly five years ago, after refusing to censor its services at the request of the government. Now it’s planning an aggressive move back into the country according to a report by The Information.

The company has imminent plans to announce that it’ll create a version of Android Wear for smartwatches in China in an attempt to assert control over the operating system, which is fragmenting rapidly in China.

The company also reportedly plans to offer “incentives” to phone makers to encourage them to upgrade their handsets to the latest version of Android, to ensure consistency for app developers.

Going back on the reason it left China in the first place, the company plans to release a special version of Google Play in the country that complies with government requirements, such as location and social-network sharing restrictions. The modified store won’t sell books or movies, will require Android Marshmallow and up, and will run on infrastructure within the country.

When Google left China in 2009, it left behind the world’s largest internet market. It’s clearly now looking to crawl back in to gain lost territory, ad revenue and marketshare to competitors in the handset market such as Xiaomi and Baidu, which dominates the search market.

The Information reports that Google is expected to announce the news by the end of September.

Google reportedly plans aggressive move back into China

 

[CHN Bamboo]

No need,plz dont come.Why u leave at first and then "bend down" after 5 years?

 

[dev_moh]

Is it Sundar Pichai at work.??

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

Google didn‘t leave willingly，they were evicted and trying to crawl back ever since.

"Do no evil" my ***! You are basically a tool invented by the jews to monitor and enslave the american people.

 

[ahojunk]

IMHO, it's may be a little too late for Google.

Google is stupid enough to let Baidu take over the search market in China.

Ignoring the massive Chinese market = saying goodbye to lots of big bucks!

China should impose more restrictions on Google such as insisting that all the Chinese search metadata be located in China, etc.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Keep google banned.

 

[ito]

Using search engines is habitual. There is no chance that Google can beat Baidu in China. If Google wants to move back into China it should first look into other areas such as mobile which are still in nascent stages and build strength in those markets to capture search market.

 

[Raphael]

Google is irreformably evil. Read the Assange Newsweek pieces to see how its #1 color revolution tool preferred by the US.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Huh? And give up our own domestic companies in favor of foreign companies?

In which freaking world?

 

[terranMarine]

Google trying to make a comeback?
A losing battle, it can NEVER compete with our domestic companies in the search and advertising market.

 

[Beidou2020]

Keep google banned.

Exactly my thoughts.

 

[Place Of Space]

wow, I almost forget the google's exist.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Huh? And give up our own domestic companies in favor of foreign companies?

In which freaking world?

If the foreign company is superior. For example, Chinese people buy foreign cars, clothing, designer bags, ect over their own.

 

[cirr]

Google might be able to sell a few crappy Nexus phones if it outsources manufacturing to Huawei。

 

[bolo]

Keep them banned.