Google Exits China

**Damien** · 23-03-2010, 13:36

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/8582233.stm

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Google has stopped censoring its search results in China, ignoring warnings by the country's authorities.

The US company said its Chinese users would be redirected to the uncensored pages of its Hong Kong website.

Google has left China and uncensored their results supplied to Chinese users by redirecting them to their Hong Kong site (although Google is expected to be blocked in the near future completely).

Kind of a massive market to give up on!

Osem · 23-03-2010, 13:47

The Chinese would probably have found some way to usurp their presence in China sooner or later anyway. They're not keen on outside influence after all.

23-03-2010, 15:05

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Originally Posted by Osem

They're not keen on outside influence after all.

Nope, they really, really, really don't like us Western Barbarians....

Horace · 24-03-2010, 05:43

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Originally Posted by Damien

Kind of a massive market to give up on!

It is, but China has been a huge distraction for Google and I would imagine it decided it just wasn't worth the time and effort required to stay in their market structure. As many already know, Google has always been different and often invests in unprofitable ventures, even if a few of those turn out to be money earners in the long term.