Google Stops Offering Free Music Service In China

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 22, 2012 @05:27AM from the cows-go-begging-milk-is-free dept.

SquarePixel writes "Google has yanked its free music service in China after being unable to make it popular enough. The service offered Chinese people free licensed music downloads and was launched in 2009 to compete with the rival search engine Baidu. 'Once China's second largest search provider, Google has now fallen to fourth place, overtaken by other local companies. — Google's popularity in the country has waned ever since 2010, when the company pulled the plug on its China-based search engine following disputes with the government over censorship and hacking concerns. Google's market share is at 5 percent, while Baidu's is 74 percent.'"

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China seems like a nice place to live by O3993 · 2012-09-22 05:29 · Score: 3, Funny

With free music downloads and all.
1. Re:China seems like a nice place to live by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-22 06:00 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Awww. You think you have clean air and basic freedoms. That's cute.
What? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-09-22 05:30 · Score: 3, Funny

"Google is shutting a Chinese music search service that offered free licensed music downloads because it wasn't popular enough"
They should launch it in Europe or North America then, I don't think they would have that problem here. What's next, will they launch a free Japanese online library in Brazil?

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