As much as we poked fun at Google's innocence in thinking the Chinese would leave them alone the one good thing to come out of this story (Asides from exposing the Chinese two faced being-nice-while-hacking-every-commercial-company-going charade) is that China's attitude to the internet has been laid bare for all to see.

Google just doesn't get China. It never did. It entered the Chinese market in 2006 with a censored search engine. Doing so it angered many human rights activists by bowing to pressure from the Chinese government to censor sites and searches at the whim of the ruling Communist party. So much for the Google motto 'Do No Evil'. Apparently, Do No Evil does not extend to supporting access to information without it being censored.

This is pretty cool. Someday we'll all be reading magazines on e-reader type devices, able to read text, pictures, play videos and music, handle animation, zoom in, out, add to our social networks - almost like a tablet. Just don't spill the breakfast all over it!

What a busy day Thursday turned out to be for Google. Not only did they launch a dictionary service and a translated web search service, Google also announced a new service that resolves DNS names. Maybe they were expecting that one to go unnoticed.