Google China Loses Co-President

[bill]

Google China Loses Co-President [pacificepoch.com]
Google China announced on December 8 that Google vice president and Greater China co-president Johnny Chou will resign on December 31. Chou, who was previously UTStarcom's (Nasdaq: UTSI) China president, was named Google China co-president in October, 2005. Chou was in charge of Google's sales and distribution in China. There have been recent reports that Chou was on his way out after Google did not support his localization plan.

[benevolent001]

why wont Google support localization plans , its better to challenge baidu with internal people task force then to making kicks offshore , is he going to some other biggie leaving Google?

Anyways Google pair is too statergic

[bill]

I think the key here is that Google did not support his localization plan. As in any big corporation the individual aspirations do not always coincide with the company line. It sounds like this was the case here. Google is certainly working on localization in China, but it was obviously not the way Mr. Chou wanted.

[ccton]

I think the reason was named in [webmasterworld.com...]

Plus Google China has a very foolish local Chinese name which was strongly objected by the majority of Chinese people who love and support Google (G-Fans, pridely, me included :) There even is a site dedicated to fight for drop the current name (www.noguge.com), according to the site, votes is 20434 vs 1824 to get rid of the stupid name.

I'd like to see Google China takes a new name, maybe Google can make a nation wide (or world wide in Chinese Speaking community) competition to find a new name.