So Google released their earnings report today. Apparently their profit doubled from last year. Not bad. But investors are still disapointed. What else is new. What is interesting is the last two paragraphs of the news article.

The jitters surrounding Google were exacerbated after the company vowed to fight a Bush administration subpoena demanding one week's worth of search requests as the federal government seeks to revive a law designed to shield children from online pornography.

Google then provoked more angst by launching a new search engine in China that will censor some results to comply with the country's free-speech restrictions.

Can anyone figure out the logic here? So they are willing to piss off our government, since they think that our government will not punish them for refusal, however they are eager to koto to the Chinese government. Sounds like business as usual. It benefits them more to placate the chinese and expand their market share in China, whereas in the US the market is already well established and its unlikely (highly) that our govt will do anything to inhibit google's business practice.

John C Dvorak has more on the 'do no evil' policy of Google.