Google ended Chinese search engine operations

[Spiritwarrior]

Google has shut down it’s Chinese search site at Google.cn and is now redirecting visitors to Google.com.hk. This is in response to the widely reported cyber attack on Google in December, Google confirms.

Users are being redirected for Google web, news and image search to the Hong Kong site, which sits outside of the Chinese firewall. Users are also being presented with simplified Chinese in addition to traditional Chinese and English results.

Google’s music search and maps products will remain live, says the company. And Google will retain research and development and sales teams in China.

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I think Google made the right choice to pull out of China because if Net companies are agreed to conduct shady business with countries like Iran or North Korea, they should bail out.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

they got out while they could, it was a smart move.

 

[froggyboy604]

Yahoo.cn probably get more traffic now.

 

[Black Angel]

Although I think that it is great that companies like Google, and GoDaddy are taking a stand on this, I don't think it'll have much effect.. China has been this way for a long time, and have prospered even before technology became what it is today. I think that, if anything, this might cause their local businesses to do better, and this move will have very little effect on them.

 

[froggyboy604]

This wont affect many Chinese people since people in China mostly use baidu.com for their search results according to Alexa. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/baidu.com

Plus, GoDaddy's domain prices are expensive compared to 1and1 and other registrar online.