Google’s new question-and-answer page was unavailable from mainland China on Tuesday, less than a month after the search engine’s internet license was renewed amid a stand-off with Beijing over online censorship. The page, http://www.google.com.hk/wenda, was launched two weeks ago and allows Chinese web users to leave questions for others to answer. Most of the posts [...]
Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt told shareholders that the internet company’s situation in China “seems to be stable” after it stopped censoring web queries in March. Google’s relations with China have been troubled since the the company alleged it was the subject of China-based cyber attacks in January. The internet giant recently began redirecting [...]
Google’s share of Chinese internet search revenue dropped to 30.9% in the first three months of the year from 35.6% in the last quarter of 2009, an indication of the commercial impact of the US firm’s fallout with Beijing. Google’s share had increased in all but two quarters since 2006. Local rival Baidu saw its [...]
Google reversed its position on the unavailability of its search services in China on Tuesday, blaming the Chinese “Great Firewall” rather than a flaw in its own servers. Even harmless searches conducted on Tuesday evening produced browser errors. Google initially blamed the errors on a technical change in its search queries that confused the Chinese “Great [...]
Chinese officials remained critical Tuesday of Google’s decision to end censorship of its Chinese-language search results, but the authorities didn’t go so far as to block the Hong Kong-based site to which Google.cn now redirects. However, some of the filtering mechanisms used against overseas internet content prevented users within China from seeing most results for [...]
Google has stopped censoring Internet search results in the mainland, redirecting users of its Chinese-language site to an uncensored site in Hong Kong. Users will still be able to conduct searches in simplified Chinese, a service David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, said is “specifically designed for users in mainland China.” The move comes two [...]
Google was accused Sunday of playing politics by suggesting the Chinese government supported hacker attacks on the website and by trying to export its own culture, values and ideas. A commentary run by the official Xinhua News Agency concluded that it “is unfair for Google to impose its own value and yardsticks on internet regulation [...]
Censorship of Google searches in China could stop within weeks, but the company is unlikely to leave the country entirely. “There will be a way for Google to not pull out 100%,” one source said, noting that the company could reach agreements with different Chinese agencies on an individual basis, allowing it to continue operating [...]
The US is considering legally challenging China over internet restrictions imposed on Google and other American companies. But US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said that while a case challenging China over censorship was a viable option, a dialogue with Beijing was more likely to obtain positive results. US trade officials are “trying to make our [...]
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology won’t limit the use of Google’s Android mobile operating system by domestic operators. “As long as it complies with Chinese laws and regulations, and as long as it has good cooperation with operators … their use of the system won’t be limited,” the ministry’s spokesman Zhu Hongren said. [...]
