Sergey Brin

internet - Google-founder admits mistakes in China

The news has been all over the internet, I saw when I woke up this morning, but is too important not to repeat here. In a kind of surprise statement Google-founder Sergey Brin admitted yesterday the company had compromised its corporate principles by giving in to the Chinese censorship.
Google started last year its news search service in Chinese by only allowing government-approved sources on the service. It then launched another censored search engine www.google.cn although its general search engine www.google.com was mostly available to the Chinese users.
According to AP Brin said Google would try to improve its censored version, but might also reverse its course by withdrawing the service. Most customers preferred the non-censored service anyway.
Well, that is not really a surprise, is it?