Google stopped filtering Chinese search results

(Chinese authorities have repeatedly warned Google about the consequences of violations of Chinese rules regarding censorship )

Great update of the article in connection with the update of the original source. New places are in italics.

If too lazy to read

• With google.cn now rolls onto google.com.hk
• Here you can see what is no longer available in China.
• Chinese media blamed Google for US intelligence

Despite the warnings of the authorities, Google stops filtering search results on its Chinese portal.

The American company said it would redirect Chinese users to the uncensored pages of its Hong Kong website.



In January, Google complained about a “sophisticated Internet attack from China.”

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The representative of the Chinese authorities accused Google of violating the “written promise” of submitting to Chinese laws made by Google when entering the Chinese market.



A government spokesman cited at Xinhua, a state news agency, said that Google’s decision to ignore its promise regarding the Chinese search portal was “completely wrong.”



Bela House announced that it was alarmed at the inability to resolve the conflict between Google and China.



US National Security Representative (Council) Mike Hummer claimed that "We are disappointed that Google and the Chinese government could not reach an agreement allowing Google to continue to provide search services on google.cn."



Chinese authorities have repeatedly warned Google about the consequences in case of violation of the law on censorship.



In its blog, Google stated that the Chinese government "made it very clear that Google’s self-censorship of its search results was not negotiable" (which is also censored by the Chinese authorities).

Decrease in rate and delay

Google General Counsel David Drummond stated that providing an unfiltered search on google.com.hk "a sensible solution to the problems we are faced with - this is how we significantly, and quite legally, increase the availability of information for Chinese citizens."

Information on the shares of Google .

Google announced possible delays in obtaining (Chinese) search results before launching the capacity required to service the redirected requests.



“We hope that the Chinese government will respect our decision, although we are well aware that access to our services can be blocked at any time,” Drummond wrote in his blog . "Therefore, we will carefully monitor the accessibility problems of our services and have created a special web page for this , where everyone can see which services are currently available in China."



One of the reasons for Google’s actions was the January 12 attack, which resulted in it, along with 12 other companies, losing some intellectual property and discovered that the attack was aimed at the mailboxes of Chinese human rights activists. This attack led Google to “rethink the possibility” of continuing its business in China.



March 22, Google in its blog announced the continuation of its operations in R & D and sales in China.



The size of the sales force will depend on the number of people for whom the Hong Kong website will remain available. Now in China there are 700 of the 20,000 permanent employees of Google.

Price of opportunity

On Sunday, state media blamed Google for its close ties to the US government .



According to state news agency Xinhua, Google has provided the United States intelligence agencies with a report on its search results (record of its search engine results).



Despite the fact that in the world of Google - search engine number 1, in China it is in second place after Baidu, significantly behind the latter.





(Chinese Internet Search Leader, Baidu)



Nevertheless, due to the growing number of Chinese Internet users, any loss of the Chinese market will negatively affect the growth prospects of Google.



Analysts say that Google’s growth prospects will not be affected by the closure of google.cn, because the latter’s contribution to Google’s revenue does not exceed 2% of the annual $ 24 billion.



"In the short term, this is not so important," said Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer in Solaris Asset Management. “In the long run, this is a loss. China is a great opportunity for growth. ”



China has one of the most sophisticated and large-scale filtration systems in the world.



Thousands of police officers monitor Internet activity, they are assisted by many automated systems for tracking blogs, chat rooms and other sites to make sure that there are no discussions on forbidden topics, such as Tiananmen Square.