KZBlog

An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘google’

  • Google.kz Equals Google.com

    Following a new law in Kazakhstan that all sites with a .kz domain must have its servers physically located inside Kazakhstan’s borders, Google announced that it will redirect google.kz to google.com. In blog post accusing the government of Kazakhstan of trying to restrict the Internet, Bill Coughran, SVP, Research & Systems Infrastructure, wrote: Some governments, […]

  • Google Transparency

    Google Transparency

    Probably to avoid bad press, Google has launched a new domain, Google Transparency Report, which shows how much traffic goes to different Google sites by country in order to see where services are blocked. The government request feature lets you see by country how many requests Google got to remove or censor content. Interestingly, Kazakhstan’s […]