In a strange coincidence, it has officially been announced today that Google is going to self-censor certain aspects of its index in China as it moves to officially enter the unstoppable force that is China’s economy. What makes it so eerie for me is as I was reading The Search, which discusses Google’s impact on the global economy, last night. I was on the section on how Google was internally conflicted with how to address the needs of Chinese searchers while accommodating the Chinese Government’s positions on human rights.