Source: Peter Murray, Singularity Hub
Once again Google is making headlines as they clash with another country over usage constraints. The internet giant got word last month of Kazakhstan’s attempts to reroute all Google domains there to servers located within the country. Google raised them one by suspending their Kazakh domain google.kz and rerouting them to google.com.
Typically Google’s domains in a given country will be tailor configured to increase search relevance to that country. However when users search the internet they are not limited by national boundaries so that requests can be handled in the fastest possible way. By rerouting away from Kazakhstan, Google Senior Vice President Bill Coughran writes in a blog post, “users will experience a reduction in search quality as results will no longer be customized for Kazakhstan.”
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Kazakhstan Tries to Censor Google – But Google Fights Back
Published: June 15, 2011