Google Australia
China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau)
During the year, a Harvard Law School report concluded that China had the most extensive Internet censorship in the world. According to the report, the Government blocked at least 19,000 sites during the 6-month study, and may have blocked as many as 50,000. Blocked sites included those of major foreign news organizations, health organizations, educational institutions, Taiwanese and Tibetan businesses and organizations, democracy activists, and religious and spiritual organizations. In September the Government blocked Google, a foreign-based search engine. After 2 weeks, during which the Government allegedly enhanced blocks on sensitive sites, access was restored. Altavista, another foreign-based search engine, was also blocked. The Government denied that it ever blocked the search engines. The authorities reportedly began to employ more sophisticated technology, such as "packet sniffers," enabling the selective blocking of specific content rather than entire Web sites in some cases. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Transcript: State Department Briefing, May 2
MR. BOUCHER: No, I'd suggest the question can be answered by google better than it could be answered by us, so if anybody wants to look up what Albright said in '99, go right ahead. We have a search engine on the website. ... [Read More]
Remarks at Town Hall Meeting
I was the executive chairman of Stanford's management information systems overhaul. And Stanford, you would think, Stanford University, technologically very sophisticated, right? It's in the middle of the Silicon Valley. David Packard, Bill Hewlett, all -- Google, all of these things come out of Stanford. Stanford had one of the most antiquated information systems you'd ever want to see. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Transcript: Under Secretary of State Sees Four Trends Shaping Today's World
Tom Friedman writes in "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" that in 1990 there were 800 computer systems linked on the Internet. Friedman wrote in a column this past June that, "In the past three years, Google has gone from processing 100 million searches per day to over 200 million searches per day ... only one-third come from inside the United States. The rest are in 88 different languages ... VeriSign, which operates much of the Internet's infrastructure, was processing 600 million domain requests per day in early 2000. It is now processing 9 billion per day." ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: South Asian Americans Organize Tsunami Relief Efforts
The Internet search engine Google has a link on its home page that guides users to relief agencies, and Amazon, the Internet bookseller, is collecting donations through its Web page. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Transcript: White House Briefing, November 5
Q: Has the White House taken any move to restrict or put some information on its website out of reach of search engines like Google? And can you tell us whether the White House has -- makes any effort to go in and change documents that are already out there, for instance, press releases, statements on Iraq? ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: State's Taylor Says Terrorist Threat is Global, Persistent, Lethal
"Globalization" refers to the web of connections -- including commercial, communications, or cultural -- that bind our world together. Since the end of the Cold War, the spread of open societies and new technologies has greatly accelerated the pace of globalization. As Tom Friedman reminds us in "The Lexis and the Olive Tree," the Internet did not even exist as we know it before 1990. In 1990, there were 800 elemental computer systems linked on the Internet. Today, Google.com searches more than two billion websites in a matter of seconds to find information on nearly anything you can imagine. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Private Citizens, Corporations Giving to Tsunami Relief
Internet service providers Google Inc., America Online and Yahoo are all linking visitors to their sites to relief groups ranging from the Red Cross and its sister organizations, to Care, AmeriCares, Oxfam, World Vision and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). World Vision has offices in nine of the countries affected, according to its web site. ... [Read More]
Locating Friends and Relatives in the United States
Private detective agencies: Google directory of security services ... [Read More]
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