Comments on: Considerations for Marketing to the Chinese Market http://myeducatedguess.blogs.techtarget.com/2006/09/14/considerations-for-marketing-to-the-chinese-market/ Marketing Answers for IT Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:23:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: Garrett Mann http://myeducatedguess.blogs.techtarget.com/2006/09/14/considerations-for-marketing-to-the-chinese-market/#comment-333 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:36:30 +0000 http://myeducatedguess.blogs.techtarget.com/2006/09/14/considerations-for-marketing-to-the-chinese-market/#comment-333 Sharon- Yes, this is the unfortunate downside of the tremendous opportunity within this market. Google as well as other properties have drawn much criticism for agreeing to censor search results. Wikipedia recently decided that the price was too high for them so they have been blocked unless they agree to censor. Do you have any specific experience that you can share about operating in the Chinese market? Sharon-

Yes, this is the unfortunate downside of the tremendous opportunity within this market. Google as well as other properties have drawn much criticism for agreeing to censor search results. Wikipedia recently decided that the price was too high for them so they have been blocked unless they agree to censor.

Do you have any specific experience that you can share about operating in the Chinese market?

]]> by: Sharon S http://myeducatedguess.blogs.techtarget.com/2006/09/14/considerations-for-marketing-to-the-chinese-market/#comment-332 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:20:47 +0000 http://myeducatedguess.blogs.techtarget.com/2006/09/14/considerations-for-marketing-to-the-chinese-market/#comment-332 Let us not forget that as stated in the book "Search", Google has come to an agreement to not allow certain search terms to provide results. Instead, for many search terms, searchers are redirected to Government Sponsored sites within China. Many "pipes" are also turned off, thus not allowing Chinese citizens the true open market that the Internet has become. Let us not forget that as stated in the book “Search”, Google has come to an agreement to not allow certain search terms to provide results. Instead, for many search terms, searchers are redirected to Government Sponsored sites within China. Many “pipes” are also turned off, thus not allowing Chinese citizens the true open market that the Internet has become.

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