2009年7月24日星期五

[G4G] Re: Not All Of Google May Be Available In Your Country(并非所有的Google服务在贵国都可以享受)

胡天翼:美国人也想翻墙

在中国,我们已经习惯于常常不能直接登录Google.com、Twitter、Youtube、Facebook、Blogspot、Flickr……

在羡慕外国人可以自由正常浏览网页的同时,我们唯一能做的,也就是依靠翻墙软件来达到“与国际接轨”的目标。那么理所当然的,美国人如果不是出于保护隐私等特殊目的,自然是不知道要去用“翻墙软件”去上网的。

但是,这并不一定意味着美国人在所有方面都比我们幸福。比如,一个拿着美国IP地址上网的网民,就“无福消受”Google中国推出的服务——谷歌 音乐。这就是一种有“中国特色”互联网服务。美国由于知识产权保护实在太过严苛,以至于网民下载任何不经授权的电子音乐都是违法行为,将受到法律的严惩。

所以,如果您拿着翻 墙软件出口转内销地想听“谷歌音乐”,那么Google会提醒您,您所处地区不提供这项服务。

谁说美国没有“网络封锁”?人家Google自己就能给你弄道“墙”——一堵禁止你侵犯知识产权的墙——Google,强!


On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:33 PM, 参考消息 <go2group@gmail.com> wrote:
Users of Google China are in the position of having quite a bit of features and content blocked for them. For instance, Google recently removed the “sign in” link from their homepage, they stopped offering auto-completion on the search box, you can’t disable safe-search, and they censor certain web results, images, or news sources. (Search for e.g. human rights, and you’ll find a censorship notice by Google at the bottom of the page. On a side-note, an ad says you can “Find human rights on eBay”, though.)

 
 

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via Google Blogoscoped by Tony Ruscoe & Philipp Lenssen on 7/24/09

The name is “world wide web”, but it’s not always. What are some of Google’s services that will only work in one country, or a limited set of countries? (Unless perhaps you route around the block – geolocation by IP, as it’s often implemented, is not an impossible hurdle.) Here are some examples:

  • At YouTube, sometimes videos will read “This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions.” Maybe you can click on the frontpage thumbnail, but then the video won’t show.
  • At Google Books, even for stuff which is in the public domain in a country where you access the book, sometimes you’ll hit a block. For instance, when I want to read “The Comedies of William Shakespeare”, I’m seeing the text “No preview available” here from Germany. (Checking through a US proxy, I can see there’s a preview coming up.)
  • Google China has a music service where you can listen to songs. It’s linked straight from the google.cn homepage. But what if you click on it from outside China? You’ll get the message “Music streaming/download services are not available in your region”.
  • Google logo doodles are often country-specific. (This week’s comic doodle reportedly only shows in the US, for instance, unless you call up a special URL.)
  • Google Video sometimes brings up country-blocks for specific videos. At one time, I saw the message “We’re sorry, but this video is not available in your country.” (While Google Video still had upload functionality linked from its homepage, you could also select target countries from a dropdown box for your content.)
  • Users of Google China are in the position of having quite a bit of features and content blocked for them. For instance, Google recently removed the “sign in” link from their homepage, they stopped offering auto-completion on the search box, you can’t disable safe-search, and they censor certain web results, images, or news sources. (Search for e.g. human rights, and you’ll find a censorship notice by Google at the bottom of the page. On a side-note, an ad says you can “Find human rights on eBay”, though.)
  • When you enter www.gmail.com in your browser and you happen to be in Germany, you’ll see the note “We can’t provide service under the Gmail name in Germany; we’re called Google Mail here instead.” You can access Gmail here by typing mail.google.com instead. You can’t get a @gmail.com account in all countries, but need to settle with @googlemail.com in some places.
  • New Google features and functionality are often initially offered in US English language versions of the interface only (like most Gmail updates) or on the .com domain (such as the new iGoogle layout). Although that’s not country-specific, it hides new things from non-English speakers.
  • The Google SMS service isn’t available in all countries. The UK homepage reads, “Google SMS is currently not available in the UK. The service is still in beta, and we’re working hard to make it better.”
  • Google Apps only supports the purchasing of the following top level domains: .com, .net, .org, .biz, and .info – all others need to be purchased elsewhere.
  • Free giveaways often officially only apply to the US... although others say they received them anyway.
  • Google says, “The Google Latitude web app currently supports iPhone/iPod Touch OS 3.0 or above. For now, it’s available in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and we hope to bring it to more countries soon.”
  • Phone service Google Voice is only available for the US.

Do you know of other Google sites or features not available in your country?

[By Tony Ruscoe & Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Not All Of Google May Be Available In Your Co ... | Comments]


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