Google's threats to pull out of China appears to have sparked some cheap imitations in the Asian country. Goojje.com, a Chinese imitation of the search engine, replaced the last three letters with of the name Google with "jje".
Goojje.com doesn't have paid-search ads. Searches on keywords, for the most part, appear to return queries that pull data from Google.com.
The Goojje logo combines parts of the logos from both Google and Chinese search engine Baidu. Google.com isn't the only knockoff in China. YouTubecn.com also emerged around the same time. Videos on the site are sluggish. It appears that the videos on the site originated on YouTube, but some of them do not play. The site does not support embedded tags.
China's counterfeit industry dates back years. From designer purses made by Gucci to electronics from Hewlett-Packard and software from Microsoft, China has been known for producing a steady stream of counterfeit goods throughout the 2000s.
Hewlett-Packard, for example, working with Chinese authorities, seized $1.2 million in counterfeit computer parts in May 2002, during a raid on an illicit operation in the southern province of Guangdong.
COMMENTARY: I bet Larry and Sergey, and especially Sergey, got a little teedoff over some Chinese entrepreneurs launching Goojje and YouTubeCn. I don't miss Google. I weaned myself off of Google months ago, and now my search engine of preference is BING, which by the way, I believe is a better search engine.
Just for the heck of it, I used the Goojje.com search engine to find my PBT Consulting site, and it came up No 2 instead of No 1 compared to the real Google. But, I can live with that.
I would also like to add, that the YouTubeCn search engine is pretty crude, but doesn't appear to have any filters for adult-oriented material, which I have a feeling the Chinese government is going to clamp down on real fast.
Face it folks, the Chinese knock-off everything. Now, wouldn't it be cool if the Chinese actually hijacked the Google site? THAT would be cool.
After having the Chinese hack into their servers and attack their Google site in China, I don't know why it is taking Larry and Sergey so long to make up their damn minds whether they will stay or leave China. I guess it must be those advertising dollars and drop in their traffic numbers that leaving will cause. Who cares. Larry and Sergey are cashing out 5 million Google shares, or roughly $5.5 billion. Money talks, bullshit walks.
Courtesy of an article dated January 29, 2010 appearing in MediaPost Publications Online Media Daily
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