China blocks all Google Searches
As many may have anticipated, China has finally blocked all Google searches to mainland China residents. This comes just over a week after Google forwarded all Google.cn requests to their Hong Kong search engine which does not censor search results anywhere near where the rules required to be in place for mainland Chinese residents. It will be interesting to see if this is the end of Google in China or if the latest move by China will cause Google to re-think their stance. Overall, it has not been a dull Q1 for the Google vs. China standoff is still making the headlines!
China appeared to up the ante Tuesday in its dispute over Google’s refusal to censor Chinese-language search results, blocking mainland Chinese Internet users from using Google search for any query. Several reports note that Chinese Internet users inside the Great Firewall of China are now unable to do any kind of Google searches at present, including banal searches that have nothing to do with any politically sensitive topics.
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