google share price down but up for baidu

So google.cn wants to pull out of china if it cannot run an uncensored search engine. This announcement came after google discovered a targeted attack against human rights activists. China’s competing search engine Baidu stocks gained at this news while google’s dropped 2%.

Google has claimed to increase their security as a result of this, this opens up other areas of attacks, the activists should google or baidu system hardening to protect their information.

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