纯技术层面来看，google确实不错，至少比号称更懂中文的百度好，但是如果google允许在全球这么多其他国家过滤结果，却仅仅对中国提出异议，但就上升到了另一个层面了，大不了改下习惯而已，也没什么大不了的说。我其实是想看看这之后到底谁输谁赢，嘿嘿。

A new approach to China: an update
3/22/2010 12:03:00 PM
On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence to suggest that the Gmail accounts of dozens of human rights activists connected with China were being routinely accessed by third parties, most likely via phishing scams or malware placed on their computers. We also made clear that these attacks and the surveillance they uncovered—combined with attempts over the last year to further limit free speech on the web in China including the persistent blocking of websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Docs and Blogger—had led us to conclude that we could no longer continue censoring our results on Google.cn.
So earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong. Users in Hong Kong will continue to receive their existing uncensored, traditional Chinese service, also from Google.com.hk. Due to the increased load on our Hong Kong servers and the complicated nature of these changes, users may see some slowdown in service or find some products temporarily inaccessible as we switch everything over.
Figuring out how to make good on our promise to stop censoring search on Google.cn has been hard. We want as many people in the world as possible to have access to our services, including users in mainland China, yet the Chinese government has been crystal clear throughout our discussions that self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement. We believe this new approach of providing uncensored search in simplified Chinese from Google.com.hk is a sensible solution to the challenges we’ve faced—it’s entirely legal and will meaningfully increase access to information for people in China. We very much hope that the Chinese government respects our decision, though we are well aware that it could at any time block access to our services. We will therefore be carefully monitoring access issues, and have created this new web page, which we will update regularly each day, so that everyone can see which Google services are available in China.
In terms of Google’s wider business operations, we intend to continue R&D work in China and also to maintain a sales presence there, though the size of the sales team will obviously be partially dependent on the ability of mainland Chinese users to access Google.com.hk. Finally, we would like to make clear that all these decisions have been driven and implemented by our executives in the United States, and that none of our employees in China can, or should, be held responsible for them. Despite all the uncertainty and difficulties they have faced since we made our announcement in January, they have continued to focus on serving our Chinese users and customers. We are immensely proud of them.
Posted by David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer

估计已经有很多人知道这条消息了，但是还是忍不住想要说一下，Google确实是好样的。

登录Google Reader后，右上有一个offline的标志，点击即可下载一个叫做Google Gears的浏览器插件。安装好后，需要重启浏览器，之后再登录Google Reader，就会看到如下标志，点击即可下载所有未阅读RSS的文字内容（不包括任何图片和视频内容，最大为2000条记录）。

不知道为什么我安装的时候卡巴斯基提示有病毒，估计是误杀吧，不然…… 另外以firefox为例，储存地址是firefox profile所在目录下的Google Gears for Firefox。估计IE的也应该在相应的地方。还有一点，在离线状态下，Add subscription，Trends是灰色的（貌似废话，离线了还怎么添加）

其实我本来还在考虑要不要下载一个本地软件版本的RSS阅读器，看来是没有这个必要了，希望这个仍在在beta中的Google Gears能越做越好。

没想到事实的真相会是这样！谷歌在其官方博客上发表了一篇名为“谷歌就谷歌输入法对用户及搜狐等各方致歉“的文章，我已经将谷歌输入法删除了。

这件事情让我想到了不久前发生的“洋品牌质量问题”，我们还能相信谁？最近在看重播的创世纪，在利益面前真的是连亲兄弟也可以反目成仇了！

目前谷歌官方还没有在首页和实验室频道放出链接，但是输入法的主页倒是有了，在这里。

使用情况还可以，不过谷歌似乎并不给用户太多选择的空间，不能进行更多的设置，只有默认的皮肤，默认的输入方式，这让习惯用智能ABC的我在输入文本时经常多打很多空格。

当然谷歌的这个输入法也是有其他地方是别的输入法没有的。
1、支持搜索，拼写输入的同时，只要您的计算机正连接网络，轻点一键即可快捷查询该词的搜索结果。
2、英文提示，只需输入v，再加前几个字母，输入法自动提示您可能要找的单字。
3、笔划输入，先按”u”进入笔划输入模式，然后用使用代码h（横）,s（竖）,p（撇）,n（捺）,z（折）,d（点）依次输入该字的各个笔划。
4、网络同步，谷歌输入法将个人字典和打字习惯储存在谷歌服务器上，不管您在哪台电脑，您只需登录谷歌帐号就可以恢复您完整的中文输入环境。
5、智能纠错，对于常见的输入错误，谷歌输入法将给予自动修正，如tign修正为ting。

另外一点可能是用搜狗的输入法习惯了，它的V模式是很强大的，但是谷歌的这个V模式只有一个英文提示的功能，甚至连数字键都不能输入。还有对于游戏的支持，至少从我玩的魔兽世界来看谷歌和搜狗表现都差不多的。

前段时间google和yahoo都推出了针对自己的优化过的IE7，google的在这里，yahoo的在这里。当初看过也就算了，经techcrunch一提醒才发现他们两个的推广页面做的实在是太像了，甚至于在google的页面上安装的仍然是yahoo的工具栏！

techcrunch推测google这个页面的来源可能是直接来自微软的相关部门，只不过微软忘了把工具栏换成google的了，还有一种可能就是google真的原样抄袭了yahoo的页面。

可惜在techcrunch放出这一消息6小时后，google的推广页面就已经全面更新了，没有亲自截下当初的页面实在是可惜，现在你看到的图片都是来自techcrunch的。