Google's new stance on China raises interesting badware questions

Posted by Oliver Day Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:53:11 GMT

Everyone is talking about Google’s latest move with regard to China and there is a possibility they will pull out of the country. If that were to occur there is the possibility that China will begin blocking Google from within the country. This raises some interesting questions for us here. Google provides the badware URL feed to Firefox browsers which prevents web surfers from viewing pages laden with infections. Will this tool continue to work for those in China?
We also receive appeals from Chinese webmasters whose sites have been infected, that produce warnings in Google’s search results. Will we see a drop off in appeals? Will those webmasters have the ability to use Google’s webmaster tools to manage the process of delisting themselves once they’ve cleaned their infection?

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  1. Drew said 5 days later:
    Too bad no one at the US gov't level is condemning China for their state sponsored data theft.

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