31 Oct 2004

Google News China
google.com, Mountain View, CA, USA,
Self-description: "Google News China presents information culled from approximately 1,000 [Chinese] news sources worldwide and automatically arranged to present the most relevant news first. Topics are updated continuously throughout the day, so you will see new stories each time you check the page."
Supplied note: "For users inside the PR China only news sources that are approved by PRC government will be listed. This restriction is not in effect for users outside of China. Shortly after Google News China was launched in September 2004, a heated debate over this issue took place.
For more information on Google and China please visit the DACHS archive (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/acwww25/allegro.pl?db=dachs&expand=yes&maxkrztitel=20&TI1=google&modus=trunkiert).
Google's own statement on this issue can be found in the Google Blog (http://www.google.com/googleblog/2004/09/china-google-news-and-source-inclusion.html)- hl."
URL http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=zh-CN&ned=cn
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Hanno Lecher - Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100