China search engine to be eliminated according to Google

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» 15 March 2010

Quoted on a latest study conducted, “a person familiar with the company’s thinking,” there is a 99.9 percent chance that Google will decide on cutting its ties with the China-based search engine.

The recent update from The Financial Times announces that the multi-national search technologies company is now finalizing its resolution with regards to shutting down the system of Google.cn. The reason for this is that there had been conflicts between Google and the Chinese authorities during their discussions.

The main concern, however, of the ministers of China was that the government wanted Google.cn to reduce the results coming out from searching through Google.cn. And, if Google does not comply with the said agreement, then the company will suffer the outcome of this ordeal.

Search engines results are now uncensored

Google was hacked by some unknown Chinese thugs and a part of its intellectual property was stolen on January 12. Thus, this large internet company came up with the decision of stopping search results in China from being filtered. The following days will then be used for Google’s negotiations with the government regarding the functioning of the engine without censoring the search results as per the China law.

On-going discussions between Google and a number of Chinese ministries are already taking place as of the moment. And, as the meetings are being held, Google complies with the censorship agreed upon by the two parties. But then, as a consequence, distribution of the two Google Android phone in China market was delayed. Also, the company decided to disallow the Chinese users from utilizing the Google phone applications on the leading Android handsets.

Shutting down as the only option

According to a statement made by Eric Schmidt during the earlier part of March, the final resolution will be announced as soon as possible. However, it will take a certain period of time before Google follows through with the cutting of ties. In addition to this, the company is still thinking of methods in order to secure its employees from the unfavorable charges that the Chinese government might hold against them.

Even though Google still desires to maintain their other ventures, the company dreads that there may come a time that the authorities will find ways in order to retaliate against them due to the shutting down of Google.cn.

Written on a blog post created on January 12, Google thought of no other ways but to cut off its ties with China by closing Google.cn and all of its other offices in the country. Eric Shcmidt, a CEO of Google, defended the fact that they had a successful business with China and shutting down the country-based search engine was not due to any other reasons except the censorship issue.

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