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Google makes it official. Out of China.



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Though they are moving to Hong Kong where they will continue to operate Chinese language searches, though the Beijing government will censor "sensitive" search requests. The Chinese government is furious that Google didn't live up to its end of a deal. The deal to go along with censorship - which they did - in the beginning.

Google shut down its search service on the Chinese mainland last night after a two-month standoff with Beijing over online freedom and an alleged intrusion by hackers.

But Chinese authorities attacked the internet giant as "totally wrong" for its decision to shift its Chinese-language offering to Hong Kong.

The move allowed the firm to stop self-censoring the service, although the government's filtering system would still prevent mainland users from seeing the results of many sensitive searches.


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