Google Looks to Break Into China With a New YouTube Channel
Google wants into China—one way or another.
The internet giant just launched a new Chinese-language YouTube channel to educate Chinese programmers on the ins and outs of various Google technologies, such as its Android mobile operating system and Compute Engine cloud computing service. The channel includes both new content and videos from Google’s English-language channel subtitled with Simplified Chinese captions.
The irony is that YouTube is officially blocked in China. So are the Android Play store and the Google search engine. And the company isn’t necessarily willing to play by local censorship rules. But it’s still looking for ways of bringing its services to more of China’s 1.35 billion people.
