1. NAME : JONAS D. CABALIDA
COURSE : MIT
SUBJECT : E-Commerce
Google Study Questions:
1. Which factors best explain why Google was so successful in the first place? Were any of
these conditions for success put in jeopardy by the decision to launch Google.cn?
not only is Google a search engine, but it is also a mapping service, a translator, an e-
mail account, and a blog-hosting service, among many other services.
The company has also expanded into many other countries and now hosts over 150
country website domains.
Google.cn studied competitors’ filteringmethods along with the Chinese
government’s method to come up with its own self-censoring system.
In order to penetrate the China search market further, Google aims to make
Google.cn as “Chinese” as possible, both by hiring Chinese employees and by
partnering with Chinese technology firms.
Google has tried to distinguish Google.cn as distinctly Chinese by adopting the local
Chinese name of “Guge,” which roughly translates to “harvest song,”
In early 2007, Google.cn set up a partnership with China Mobile, the government-
owned dominant mobile-phone carrier in China, to manage the firm’s mobile
Internet search services.
Google.cn partnered with the Chinese music and video sharing YouTube-like site
Xunlei.com.
After taking into account user interests, the expansion of access to information, and
unique local conditions, Google decided to launch the self-censored Google.cn in
January of 2006.
In a move toward transparency that distinguishes it from competitors like
Baidu.com, Yahoo!, and MSN, Google.cn provides users with a brief message
indicating if any pages have been censored from their search results. The message
does not inform users what specific pages have been censored; it simply lets them
know that censorship has occurred.
2. Was Google right to have entered the Chinese market the way it did? Did Google’s mission
compel it to create Google.cn? What specific aspects of the mission does Google address in
making its decision to enter? What other reasons could there have been for entering China?
How do Google’s conclusions fit with its motto, “Don’t be Evil”?
The Google’s mission statement asserts that “Google’s mission is to organize the
world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. In connection to
this, Google was right because every people has a right to be informed. On the
other hand, Google is already a player in the Chinese Market.

2. Since the site’s inception in 1999, U.S.- based Google.com had been available to
Chinese users as it had been to users worldwide. As conclusion, prior to entering
China, Google had successfully set itself apart from other technology giants,
becoming a company trusted by millions of users to protect and store their personal
information. The choice to accept self-censorship, and the discussion and debate
generated by this choice, forced Google to re-examine itself as a company and
forced the internal community to reconsider the implication of censorship.
3. Where is the success of the Chinese censorship system? In other words, what makes their
censorship systemwork so well? Where does Google fit in to this system? Has Google
worked to improve the situation? What more could it do?
Chinese state was able to block 90% of websites about the “Tiananmen massacre,” 31%
of sites about independence movements in Tibet, and 82% of sites with a derogatory
version of the name of former President Jiang Zemin, and this is the indication that
Chinese censorship system successful.

3. NAME : JONAS D. CABALIDA
COURSE : MIT
SUBJECT : E-Commerce
Facebook Study Questions:
1. An important consideration for every e-commerce website is to maintain the privacy of
its users. Use of innovative technologies and lack of secure systems makes it easy to
obtain personal and confidential information about individuals and organizations. Do
you think Facebook was able to deliver the need for privacy for its clientele?
a. Facebook was unable to deliver privacy for its clientele in sense that your
personal information can still be shared by others. I also experience the terrible
things that there is somebody had accessed my account and posted this string on
my wall post “I want to die.. I want to die…”. And this just a simple keynote that
your privacy is not well protected in facebook.
2. Owners of websites should guard against the potential sources of liability which could
lead to legal claims against them. Since the Internet knows no boundaries, the owner of
a website could be confronted with legal liability for non-compliance or violation of
laws of almost any country. As a Filipino user, in cases of privacy infringement and
intellectual property rights violation on the side of Facebook due to system features and
implementations, Do you feel comfortable in using the website? What are the ways that
you could do to prevent incidents like this to happen? And In cases it happened, What
are you going to do to protect your rights?
a. Of course, as I access my facebook account and put something about my
personal information on private, I am still not comfortable with it. In this matter,
to avoid this incidents of privacy infringement and intellectual property rights
violation, I always put an alias of myself, and not totally trust the website to hold
on to my personal information. To protect my right if it happens, I do strongly
advocating the cybercrime law. Because this is the only hope that I can go after
the violators.
3. Many websites advertise goods or services to customers. The traditional laws of
advertising, which apply to ordinary sales, are enacted in the interest of all consumers
to prevent deceptive and unfair acts or practices. Explain how effective is Facebook on
monetizing their website? Is it ethically correct to monetize certain social networking
websites without informing its users about its intensions before the user signs-up to its
website?
a. Facebook introduce to users for free, and no commerce was conducted on the
site. Yet Facebook had two facets attractive to the advertising community: 1.
Personal Information about individual users and 2. Personal connections
between friends. With this scheme, business can easily be introduced to one
member and a member can share it to many friends.
b. Monetizing the certain social networking website without prior information to its
users is totally unethical. But as concern socialize individual, must have first to
understand the intention of every networking sites, that though it is given freely,
the next phase of it is business, because no one will make effort without return
service.

4. 4. What are the good and bad sides that Facebook has implemented as new means of
making money online? Is it a good idea to sell goods and products on its website? How
do you think to maximize online advertisement through Facebook?
a. Not yet encountered
5. Recently Facebook began selling stocks to the public in the most talked-about
market debut in years. As an entrepreneur, should you jump in on Facebook stocks?
Why or Why not? Explain.
a. Facebook has affected the social life and activity of people in various ways. With
its availability on many mobile devices, Facebook allows users to continuously
stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they are
in the world, as long as there is access to the Internet. It can also unite people
with common interests and/or beliefs through groups and other pages, and has
been known to reunite lost family members and friends because of the
widespread reach of its network. One such reunion was between John Watson
and the daughter he had been seeking for 20 years. They met after Watson
found her Facebook profile. Another father-daughter reunion was between Tony
Macnauton and Frances Simpson, who had not seen each other for nearly 48
years.
b. Some argue that Facebook is beneficial to one's social life because they can
continuously stay in contact with their friends and relatives, while others say
that it can cause increased antisocial tendencies because people are not directly
communicating with each other. Some studies have named Facebook as a source
of problems in relationships. Several news stories have suggested that using
Facebook can lead to higher instances of divorce and infidelity, but the claims
have been questioned by other commentators.[