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China Renews Google's Content Provider License
snydeq writes "The Chinese government has renewed Google's Internet Content Provider license (announcement), enabling the company to continue to provide Web search and other local products to users in China. If Google had been unable to renew its license, it could have meant the end of the company's operations in China, leaving search engine rival Baidu to dominate the market. Last week Google began making efforts to win over Chinese officials. Rather than automatically redirecting Google.cn visitors to Google's Hong Kong search engine (a strategy the Chinese government found unacceptable), the company now sends visitors to a 'landing page' where they can choose to click on a link leading to the Hong Kong site, or stay to use unfiltered services such as music or text translation."
Eat that dick google !!!!
Because Google has pretty much said "fuck you" (in far more polite terms) to a major world superpower when most world governments are afraid to do so.
But wait -- as early as January of this year Google was still censoring its search results. And the only reason why Google decided that censorship was not in its best interests is due to the Google hacks that were uncovered early this year. Do you really believe Google said "fuck you" out of the goodness of their collective hearts? Reality proves otherwise: What goes on in China affects Google's bottom line, and since censorship was no longer profitable for them, they decided to become "good citizens."