Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Google to Stop Redirecting Chinese Users to Hong Kong - NYTimes.com

More Google adventures in China

Mr. Drummond wrote that in an effort to continue to serve Google’s Chinese users while placating the government, the company is proposing a compromise. In the next few days, it will stop automatically redirecting users to its Hong Kong site.

Instead, Chinese users will see a page at google.cn, which offers a single link to the Hong Kong site, where they can conduct searches or use other Google services, like translation and music, that require no filtering.

The company said it had resubmitted its content provider license based on this approach and hopes the Chinese government will find it more palatable. If the government continues to object, Google would lose its ability to operate a Web site in China altogether.

Google to Stop Redirecting Chinese Users to Hong Kong - NYTimes.com

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