Sunday 12 June 2011

Web 101 - Week 2

It seems that living in the western society we are all conditions to access Medias controlled by the U.S.A.

However, coming from an Asian background I do realise that the majority of Chinese people uses different website compared to western countries. They have similar functions however the contents and language are different. Here are some examples.

Facebook = www.renren.com / kaixin.com
Google = www.baidu.com
MSN = www.qq.com

Unfortunately the main reasons for Chinese people to access these websites are not the results of better quality however the reasons are due to government restrictions on available access to certain websites.


Johnny Ko

1 comment:

  1. This is a very interesting comment you make... I lived in Japan for a while so I tried to see where Japanese web pages were hosted and still found so many are in the US!
    Do you have any interesting non western sites I could visit? Would they all be in Chinese? Thanks!

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