Chinese authorities have renewed a license Google for years, as the beleaguered market share of local search engines declined. "We can confirm that the government has renewed our [Internet Content Provider] license," Google said in a statement to the media. Commercial license only allows Google to operate a local web portal, Google. cn, and continue to search results syndicate to other local search engines. Google may be the world's leading search engines, but the underdog in China after butting heads with the government on various occasions during the past two years.
According to China-based Analysys International, China's Google's market share in the second quarter fell 0. 3 percent to 18. 9 percent of the online search market. Baidu, a local search provider, has shifted the way for many years to 75. 9 percent.
In a three-year peak, Google China held 35. 6 percent versus 58. 4 percent of Baidu's market, back in 2009. In January 2010, Google said there was an attempt to return to the Gmail account of Chinese human rights activists. At that time, Google promises not to censor search results in China, even if it means pulling out the country entirely, and re-routed all traffic to Google.
com. hk Google. cn censored. Not surprisingly, a Chinese minister warned of "consequences" if Google continues to divert the results. Finally, the two sides settled on a hybrid solution.
Reluctant analyst Sascha PCMag has a sense of how subtle censorship of Google search results during a recent trip to China, see Life Behind the Great Firewall of China and the slideshow below for more. All users in China will be redirected to a landing page Google. cn, in which the search component is filtered through Google. com. hk choice.
Google. cn other services that can be given without a filter, such as music and text to translate, which is available through Google. cn. While China has firmly denied involvement in the attack on Google in 2010, thousands of the cable is released by WikiLeaks last November suggests otherwise. This last June, Google identifies the IP address of the Chinese behind the new efforts to enter into a personal Gmail account U.
S. officials, journalists and activists. In August, a security researcher said the attacks have not stopped. China Offers syndicated Google has also shrunk over the years. Sina.
com, China's second largest online media portal, recently replaced by the search engine Google to run its own search technology. In March 2010, Tom Online, Hong Kong runs the Internet content provider, also remove. Baidu, especially Chinese-language search engine, using Bing Microsoft to search results in English. Meanwhile, the Chinese government recently launched a new department to make internet censorship is a more "efficient. " For more about the struggle of the new Silicon Valley in China, see Zynga Entering the Chinese officials, Without Facebook, as well as China Declares Skype illegal, and details about why human rights Group slammed until the transaction in China.
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