A news report in Forbes says that China has blocked Google with its great firewall, now the world waits to see if Australia’s Minister for Censorship, Senator Stephen Conroy, will do the same following his outrageous attacks on Google.
Google to Shut Down China Music Service - WSJ.com
'BEIJING—Google Inc. said it will shut down its China-only music-download service, in the search giant's latest setback in the fiercely competitive Chinese Internet market.
The Mountain View, Calif., company said Friday it would shut down Google Music Search on Oct.
Hello community,
As many of you know (if you haven't heard), china is pretty restrictive on their internet world. Not really that strict, just most of the sites I use, like youtube, facebook, are blocked in china. I plan to visit china soon, and I really want to download an app that can bypass china's censored internet (or proxy, etc).
“China”, just hearing the word projects images of grandeur and power. So what, you might ask, would make such a powerful country worry outside of the next world war? In a word, GOOGLE!
Bad news for internet users in China; reports of an outage of Google services in China are beginning to flood in. Gmail, Maps, Play Music, and anything else Google related is being blocked for Chinese users.
China may have finally driven away a U.S. search company...
Google just announced it is shutting down its Google Shopping China service. The website is still online, but Google confirmed its closure in a post on its China blog (link via Google Translate). It stated:
In order to better optimize resources, we have decided to close our shopping search service in China.
Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government’s internet controls, according to censorship monitoring blog GreatFire.org.
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