[Music] when I wrote in the Plex I wanted to get people inside of Google and learn how it worked and how it operated not just in the United States but around the world and nowhere were things more interesting than Google in China and I thought I'd tell five things that most people don't know about Google's China experience number one the thing which was most troubling to the people who work at Google was not the censorship but the fact that Google didn't allow the engineers working in China to get access to the code that allowed them
to work on Google's products like search this made them crazy and Google did this because basically it was worried that if this information was available to the Chinese Engineers it would leak out to the Chinese government uh so Google was very adamant that this couldn't happen number two Google government Rel ation person was fired for giving iPods the government officials as a Christmas present this violated regulations the United States has about people giving bribes uh in in other countries and Google had to fire her and she was shocked of course because she thought this was
normal practice in China number three the Chinese government complained when a product called Google's suggest linked to pornography sites Google felt that it was nothing special about Google linking to those sites the competitors did it too but the Chinese government spanked in the terms they use uh Google for that and they took Kaiu Lee the head of Google China uh into a conference room and made him look at the sites the the Google product linked to number four despite all the problems that Google had with the Chinese government the Chinese government actually gave an award
to Google during a calamitous earthquake Google Maps came up with an interactive product to help people locate relatives you know in in in the area and see which areas were damaged and for their work uh the Google Engineers got a certificate from the Chinese government which I was able to see in Google Beijing the last thing you don't know about Google and China is that Kaiu Lei who was the head of operations for Google China is a foodie and he took very much care in hiring a chef and took the chef through multiple iterations till
the chef can cook the beef noodle dinner that his mother used to cook to him and finally he concluded that the chef made it better than his mother you could read about Google in China and lots of other things about Google by reading in the Plex how Google thinks works and shapes Our [Music] Lives
