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Several of Google’s Web services in mainland China were reported as fully blocked on Thursday including Web search, YouTube, Ads, and Blogger. Those reports turned out to be incorrect due to misinformation from Google’s Mainland China service availability chart. Other services, including Google Images, News, Docs, and Groups were also misreported as “partially blocked.” (See [...]

Google has stopped censoring results in China, acting on a decision it made in January.
On Monday, Google stopped censoring Google Search, Google News and Google Images on Google.cn, according to a blog post from Chief Legal Officer David Drummond.
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Google’s Social Search service, which includes public content from users’ social networks in search results, is getting promoted to Google.com from the company’s Labs site, meaning it is no longer considered an early prototype.
In the coming days, Google will let English-language users of its search engine see relevant links to items their social-networking contacts have [...]