Merry christmas
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Google (Gu Ge) wish everybody merry christmas: )
Rat year happy
Publish a person: Ministry of public relations of cereal song China
Wish everybody Happy New Year, rat year lucky!
P.S. Was the little change on result page searched during discovering the Spring Festival? Wish everybody cracker is divided one year old in succession, flourishing crosses New Year.
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Contest of process designing of summer vacation time of 2008 cereal song: All people to have deep love for code
The person that publish: Google (Gu Ge) public relations ministry
We are about to start contest of process designing of summer vacation time of song of 2008 year cereal, this activity aims to be college student bankroll, help them write source software during summer vacation.
In a few months henceforth, we will with open source and organization of freeware or public domain software to spread out collaboration, single out hundreds of from inside the student application project of thousands of. It is during summer vacation, extend in installment millions dollar funds, help them write these code. Our target is the supply that promotes the whole world to open source software, the person that write to these young programs at the same time people offer opportunity of job of summer vacation time.
Activity of contest of process designing of cereal song summer vacation time since 05 since beginning to hold since year, the undergraduate actively that has a lot of China is participated in and developed interesting software, the end of the summer that cereal song code plays after the 5 classmates Ceng Xian that comes from Jiangsu, Beijing and Fujian travels.
We hope the Xia Cheng of the cereal song code this year is a more successful, for this, we were lengthened hold time, it is OK before beginning to write a program to let student and its advisers the application that easier ground discusses them, at the same time we still acceded the good convention last year, as soon as possible announces selected application, such students have more time and project group to spread out collaboration.
We are expecting those who come from each organizations and student individual to take an active part in. It is during the application of origanization construction came on March 3 on March 12, it is during the student’s application 24 day came in March on March 31 (although at this moment China just greets spring: ) . The time that writes code comes from May 26 on August 18.
The website that lands us please knows more news: Http://code.google.com/soc/2008
Commemorate Bell
Publish a person: Google (Gu Ge) public relations ministry
Today is the father of the phone, alexander - Bell birthday of 161 years old.
We are in this special day, the means that uses him Gu Ge grieves over this giant that makes outstanding contribution for communication career, the conception of his lead already developed nowadays for fiber-optic communication, whole world of be well versed in, make the one part of shellfish Er phone.
Free expression and controversial content on the web
Posted by Rachel Whetstone, Director of
Global Communications and Public Affairs, EMEA
Our world would be a very boring place if we all agreed all the
time. So while people may strongly disagree with what someone says,
or think that a particular newspaper article is total nonsense, we
recognize that each of us have the right to an opinion.
We also know that letting people express their views freely has
real practical benefits. Allowing individuals to voice unpopular,
inconvenient or controversial opinions is important. Not only might
they be right (think Galileo) but debating difficult issues in the
open often helps people come to better decisions.
While most people agree in principle with the right to free
expression, the challenge comes in putting theory into practice.
And that's certainly the case on the web, where blogs, social
networks and video sharing sites allow people to express themselves
- to speak and be heard - as never before.
At Google we have a bias in favor of people's right to free
expression in everything we do. We are driven by a belief that more
information generally means more choice, more freedom and
ultimately more power for the individual. But we also recognize
that freedom of expression can't be — and shouldn't be –
without some limits. The difficulty is in deciding where those
boundaries are drawn. For a company like Google with services in
more than 100 countries - all with different national laws and
cultural norms - it's a challenge we face many times every
day.
In a few cases it's straightforward. For example, we have a
global all-product ban against child pornography, which is illegal
in virtually every country. But when it comes to political
extremism it's not as simple. Different countries have come to
different conclusions about how to deal with this issue. In Germany
there's a ban on the promotion of Nazism — so we remove Nazi
content on products on
users) products. Other countries' histories make commentary or
criticism on certain topics especially sensitive. And still other
countries believe that the best way to discredit extremists is to
allow their arguments to be publicly exposed.
All this raises important questions for Internet companies like
Google. Our products are, after all, specifically designed to help
people create and communicate, to find and share information and
opinions across the world. So how do we approach these
challenges?
It should come as no surprise to learn people have different views
about what should appear on our sites. How and where to draw the
boundaries is the subject of lively debate even within Google. We
think that's healthy. And partly because of this, we realize
that creating a flawless set of policies on which everyone can
agree is an impossible task.
Google is not, and should not become, the arbiter of what does and
does not appear on the web. That's for the courts and those
elected to government to decide. Faced with day-to-day choices,
however, we look at our products in three broad categories: search,
advertising and services that host other people's
content.
Search is the least restricted category. We remove results from our
index only when required by law (for example, when linked to
content infringing copyright) and in a small number of other
instances, such as spam results or results including unauthorized
credit card and social security numbers. Where feasible, we tell
our users when we remove results.
At the other, most restrictive, end of the spectrum, we have what
might be called commerce products –- the text of the advertisements
we carry, which are subject to clear
ad content policies.
The most challenging areas are where we host other people’s content
– offerings like Blogger, Groups, orkut and video. On the one
hand, we're not generating the content and we aim to offer a
platform for free expression. On the other hand, we host the
content on our servers and want to be socially responsible. So we
have terms that we ask our users to follow. (See
for examples.)
So the question becomes: how do we enforce those terms? In general,
Google does not want to be a gatekeeper. We don't, and
can't, check content before it goes live, any more than your
phone company would screen the content of your phone calls or your
ISP would edit your emails. Technology can sometimes help here, but
it's rarely a full answer. We also have millions of active
users who are vocal when it comes to alerting us to content they
find unacceptable or believe may breach our policies. When they do,
we review it and remove it where appropriate. These are always
subjective judgments and some people will inevitably disagree. But
that’s because what’s acceptable to one person may be offensive to
another.
We also face the added complication that laws governing content
apply differently in the different parts of the world in which we
operate. As we all know, some governments are more liberal about
freedom of expression than others. These legal differences create
real technical challenges, for example, about how you restrict one
type of content in one country but not another. And, in extreme
cases, we face questions about whether a country's laws and
lack of democratic processes are so antithetical to our principles
that we simply can't comply or can't operate there in a way
that benefits users.
But it's not only legal considerations that drive our policies.
One type of content, while legal everywhere, may be almost
universally unacceptable in one region yet viewed as perfectly fine
in another. We are passionate about our users so we try to take
into account local cultures and needs — which vary dramatically
around the world — when developing and implementing our global
product policies.
Dealing with controversial content is one of the biggest challenges
we face as a company. We don’t pretend to have all the right
answers or necessarily to get every judgment right. But we do try
hard to think things through from first principles, to be as
transparent as possible about how we make decisions, and to keep
reviewing and debating our policies. After all, the right to
disagree is a sign of a healthy society.
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Getting to know the candidates
Posted by Ginny Hunt, Public Policy
Communications Team
Yesterday Senator Obama became the latest U.S. presidential
candidate to visit Google headquarters in Mountain View for
a talk and then Q&A. We're heartened to see how most
every candidate is taking full advantage of the Internet, by making
good use of YouTube together with their own websites, blogs and
social networks to inform voters of their positions and share more
of their thinking than traditional campaigns ever allowed.
The next big event we're looking forward to is the November 28
CNN/YouTube Republican debate. Stay tuned for that, and if
you'd like to watch the talks other candidates have given at
Google,
here they are.
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Happy mid-autumn
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Today is the traditional Chinese calendar on August 15 the Mid-autumn Festival, google (Gu Ge) wish everybody happy mid-autumn!
Gu Ge today 9 years old
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Today is Gu Ge nine birthday, thank everybody to Google (Gu Ge) praise, criticism, opinion, proposal, attention and with support! Still have in this domain too much and too much the exploration that outstanding, uncharted territory needs us hard, the user still has too much and too much demand, expect to need to satisfy, the expeditionary ability of the search just begins.
Zhou Si does not attend a meeting
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Get a mail that the VP Wayne hair of FUN branch comes to today, google is written above (Gu Ge) the tradition that Zhou Si does not attend a meeting, although the period of time before us is lax right the execution of this policy, but now, we should hold on to this No Meeting Thursdays in Gu Ge.
Of course, what thing has exception, the extraordinary meeting that cereal song person promises each other still as usual leaves, be new Googler of invite applications for a job and must be in timeline Zhou Si’s interview also will insusceptible, because we do not think,lose the chance of employ new employee.
Be in the following in 3 months, the athletic day that Zhou Si will make Gu Ge (Sports Day) . After 3 months, will processing branch checks and accept the effect, if everybody feels very good, we can announce the culture of a company that this policy carries out a success and regards Gu Ge as it to continue to hold on.
The story of Doodle backside (one)
The person that publish: Google (Gu Ge) public relations ministry
A lot of friends know Google (Gu Ge) can be in festival when the Doodle that rolls out each characteristic, but do you know what finish when have a fever to which Doodle is an architect? Do you know Google which letter designs these 6 letters the hardest? The architect Dennis Hwang that lets Gu Ge Doodle decodes the story of these Doodle backside to everybody!
Bastille Day (day of French National Day) in July 2000
This is the first Doodle that I finish. Although the design is simple, but when finishing this Doodle independently already nervous excited mood still is clear about.
Louis Braille's Birthday (birthday of braille contriver Louis Braille) 2006 year
This Doodle is made with braille input system, I am very affirmative this is exclusive the mode that we cast off design Doodle. Originally I think this design won’t be passed by superstratum, but when agreeing to use this Doodle with Sergey when Larry, I by Gu Ge this company shook.
Leonardo Da Vinci's Birthday (list abstruse accept much