The sensational news in China yesterday was baidu.com, the biggest search engine of that country, was hacked by an organization claimed themselves as Iranians. Comments and observers, however, doubted this claims based on the fact that there were no major conflicts between the two countries.
While the only time I used baidu.com was when I wanted to input some Chinese characters on a computer without Chinese input programs. What I did was input pinyin into baidu and copy the Chinese characters it prompted. However baidu.com still became the largest search engine of China, partly because the illegal piracy mp3 links it provides and other secret ingredients appealing to the massive Chinese netizens. Though I don't use baidu.com that much, I still feel sorry for its being hacked. On this particular occasion, it seems to be innocent based on the information I am concerned.
The sensational news in China today is, Google, after struggling from censorship scandals and high pressures from Chinese authority, is thinking about to quit Chinese market. (A New Approach to China, Official Google Blog)
According to the author David Drummond, a high level official in Google, the company is 'no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn'. Besides, he suggests that Google has been investigating several cases of Gmail accounts being hacked, most of which belong to Chinese human right activists.
Someday, Google will return in glory.
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