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Google exec Eric Schmidt heads to North Korea Monday CBS News Eric Schmidt of Google is in Beijing and is scheduled to leave Monday on a commercial flight bound for a country considered to have the world's most restrictive Internet policies. He is part of a delegation led by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. See all stories on this topic » CBS News

Critics of Google Antitrust Ruling Fault the Focus New York Times WASHINGTON — One of the more surprising conclusions drawn by the Federal Trade Commission when it dropped its nearly two-year antitrust investigation into Google last week was that Google, far from harming consumers, had actually helped them. See all stories on this topic »

Yandex Drops as Antitrust Ruling Stokes Google Concerns Bloomberg Yandex, which has more than double the market share of Google in Russia, may come under pressure as the Mountain View, California-based company looks to extend its dominance of the global search sphere after a U.S. Federal Trade Commission probe ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Says It Will Stop Blocking Maps from Windows Phone Mashable Google says it will stop redirecting Windows Phone users away from its mobile Google Maps website. This weekend, controversy erupted after users reported that attempts to access Google Maps on Windows Phone devices led to redirects to the Google ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's New Director Of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, Is Building Your ... TechCrunch World-renowned artificial intelligence expert and Google's new Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, wants to build a search engine so sophisticated that it could act like a 'cybernetic friend,' who knows users better than they know themselves. “I ... See all stories on this topic » TechCrunch

North Korea trip by Bill Richardson, Google's Eric Schmidt set for this week San Jose Mercury News SAN FRANCISCO - Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will lead a private humanitarian mission to North Korea this week, Richardson's office confirmed in a statement Saturday. Richardson will hold a ... See all stories on this topic »

Ad Blocking Raises Alarm Among Firms Like Google New York Times That move has raised alarm among companies that, like Google, have based their entire business models on providing free content to consumers by festooning Web pages with paid advertisements. Although Google so far has kept largely silent about Free's ... See all stories on this topic »

Vuzix M100 Hands-On: Google Glass' First Real Competitor Sucks Gizmodo Vuzix M100 Hands-On: Google Glass' First Real Competitor Sucks I just put the Vuzix M100 on my face, a device that's supposed to be the future of all tech: wearable computers. It's a nice idea, sort of, but if this is the future of tech, I hate the ... See all stories on this topic »

Intel: Google Partnership Could Pay Off Nicely Seeking Alpha As someone who very closely follows Intel (INTC), it puzzles me when people remark that Intel has yet to land a single design win with its products. Now, this is obviously absurd to followers of the company, but I think that the general investment ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Quietly Gives Up Its Fight To Combat Censorship In China Business Insider Google has quietly removed a feature that warned Chinese citizens when they were searching for terms banned by the Chinese government, reports Chinese censorship watchdog site, Greatfire.org. For instance, when people tried to search for the term ... See all stories on this topic »

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〔編譯俞智敏／綜合報導〕網路搜尋龍頭業者Google極不情願地坦承，該公司對抗中國網路審查的努力宣告失敗，Google已低調停止對中國用戶提供敏感詞提醒服務，因為中國政府找到了防堵的新辦法。
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根據衛報報導指出，Google自去年五月以來始終在幕後努力，對遭到中國當局禁止搜尋的敏感詞執行「貓捉老鼠」式的邊緣政策，當中國用戶搜尋這些政治敏感詞時提供提醒服務，試圖改善中國用戶的搜尋結果。
但 Google與中國政府間的角力於去年十二月進入白熱化，因為儘管Google提供提醒，中國用戶依舊被中國當局切斷連線。據一名中國消息人士透 露，Google曾數度試圖避開中國的封鎖卻徒勞無功，Google最後認為繼續與中國政府間的技術爭議只會造成「不良效果」，終於決定停止這項服務。
敏感詞提醒服務 上月初叫停
中國網路審查監測網站「防火牆」（Great Fire）四日公布對中國境內搜尋的測試結果，證實Google取消了敏感詞提醒服務，同時也提供一份協助網頁。
Google公司發言人證實已於十二月取消了敏感詞提醒服務，但以中國狀況敏感為由拒絕發表更多評論。
Google於去年五月公布這項提醒功能時曾解釋說，中國用戶在搜尋如「長江」、「江蘇移動」等關鍵詞時常遇到連線問題。但在Google公布這項功能的廿四小時內，中國政府就設法讓該功能失效。數天後，Google又在六月修改了敏感詞提醒方式，也隨即遭中國政府封鎖。
隨著雙方緊張情勢不斷上升，去年十一月，Google的英文以及中文服務遭封鎖達廿四小時，到了十二月初，當用戶持續反映進行某些搜尋仍遇到問題時，Google終於決定放棄這項服務。
Google與中國政府之間的關係自二○○六年起就相當緊張，當時Google首度在中國提供網路搜尋服務。最新的爭議發生時機，正值中國政府開始對網路進行更廣泛箝制，包括封鎖協助用戶匿名上網的「虛擬私有網路」（ＶＰＮ ）在內。
中國政府上月才剛宣布實施網路實名制，要求用戶必須向網路服務提供業者提供真實身分，再度引發各界對中國言論自由感到擔憂。

Google to make Maps accessible to Windows Phone users CNET Recent improvements to IE mobile and Google Maps now deliver a better experience and we are currently working to remove the redirect. We will continue to test Google Maps compatibility with other mobile browsers to ensure the best possible experience ... See all stories on this topic »

Best Google Bug Ever Adds 'Praise The iPad' To Text-To-Speech Commands ... Huffington Post In a hilarious quirk that may have gone almost undetected for months, Google's text-to-speech engine often ends sentences with the peculiar phrase “he now praises the iPad." According to TechCrunch, the bug appears in Google Now as well as in Google ... See all stories on this topic »

Google may need history lesson on blocking rivals' products CNET With its decision to block Windows Phone users from accessing Google Maps, Google isn't the first browser maker to block users from accessing content with a competitive product. Microsoft has done the same in the distant and not-so-distant past. But ... See all stories on this topic »

EU Commission's Google Investigation Won't Be Affected By American Decision Huffington Post "We have taken note of the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) decision, but we don't see that it has any direct implications for our investigation, for our discussions with Google, which are ongoing," said Michael Jennings, a spokesman for the European ... See all stories on this topic »

US irked by Google chief's North Korea plans Fox News Associated Press. Washington – Google chief Eric Schmidt's plan to visit North Korea has put the Obama administration in the awkward position of opposing a champion of Internet freedom engaging with one of the most intensely censored countries. See all stories on this topic »

Google antitrust settlement reshapes patent disputes PCWorld The patent injunction portion of Google's antitrust settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this week won't mean an end to patent disputes between Google and mobile device makers, but it does take away one major threat Google has used against ... See all stories on this topic »

Google, Apple, Microsoft app number wars heat up PCWorld (blog) Christina is a contributor to media outlets such as Forbes.com, Inc.com, PCWorld.com, Auto Trader and The Minneapolis Star Tribune. She writes about a myriad of topics including technology, the automotive industry and health and fitness. Her talents ... See all stories on this topic »

GTVHacker shows off custom recovery for Google TVs (video) Engadget There's plenty of official news about Google TV this week at CES, but if you're more interested in cracking the platform wide open unofficially this video may be of interest. The GTVHacker team reveals that it has been developing an exploit that will ... See all stories on this topic »