research assignment

Research Skills Assignment


How I conduct the search


I conducted this search through Google and started by just adding a few keywords. I got a lot of results back and the majority of them where blogs. I used the quotation command to narrow the search .The return was better, but I also had to use the – and + command just to get a better return. From this, I started to evaluate the web sites by using the prompt method to narrow down the results .The sites that I used are presented clearly and are relevant to the question. I used these sites over others because they were more credible. They are an unbiased because as they are national newspapers and media. I am a bit worried about how current the articles are but could not find anything more up to date.


Against


· In order for Google to operate in China, they had to censor certain information. One of Google’s founders, Mr Brin admitted this compromised their principles, which damaged the reputation of the company in Europe and the US. "On a business level, that decision to censor... was a net negative."
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jan/27/news.newmedia
January 27 2007


· The information is not universally accessible because Google is deciding what information can be accessed in certain countries “As it is, we have private companies like Google deciding what we can and can't see based on their self-interested readings of poorly-drafted national laws, taking advice from unnamed and unaccountable Government agencies and telling nobody what is going on.” Bill Thompson
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2360351.stm



for


· Google should not be left to censorship it database but they are forced to as “they have no editorial control over the content on the hundreds of millions of sites they help their customers to access, arguing that they are more like a postal service” http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article2347562.ece


Summary


After reading and evaluating the information that I found about Google and their censorship problem; I have come to the conclusion that Google is like any other internet company ,which have to make money . In order to make money they have to provide a service to people in different countries, which have different laws .this has made it difficult for Google to abide by their mission statement. So it seems that the government have the upper hand because in any company eyes like Google, they do not want to have a long and costly court case with any countries government. In Google’s defence, it should not be up to them to censor the information on the internet. The focus should be about delivering the information to the masses regardless for where their live