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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 [...]

The Beijing government’s decision to renew Google’s license to do business in China could be a big step in a long process of negotiations between Google and China to find a way to coexist. Google announced Friday that China had renewed the company’s Internet Content Provider (ICP) license, which enables the search giant to do [...]

Is Google learning how to read the wind in China? Back in 2006, when Google was just getting into China for the first time, The New York Times published an inside look at the complicated process Google was required to follow in order to make sure it was censoring its search engine in line with [...]

The Chinese government has renewed Google’s Internet Content Provider license, the company announced Friday in an update to an earlier blog posting. “We are very pleased that the government has renewed our ICP license and we look forward to continuing to provide web search and local products to our users in China,” the updated post [...]

Google users inside of China are unable to use Google’s search suggestions feature, as Google awaits word on its ultimate fate in China. Ever since Google announced it would offer Chinese language search out of Hong Kong rather than mainland China, it has maintained a “Mainland China service availability” page to track which Google services [...]

Google’s delicate balancing act in China appears to be unraveling. Google publicly declared its intention in March to move its Chinese-language Internet search operation in Hong Kong in hopes of bypassing censorship laws for companies that operate in mainland China, but the public showdown with the Chinese government never seemed destined for a happy ending. [...]