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Google’s Web search service in China has been “partially blocked”, the Internet giant said. Google’s Web search engine in China was “partially blocked” on Wednesday, the deadline for Beijing to renew the Internet giant’s Chinese business license. (c) 2010 AFP

Google began offering an encrypted option for Web searchers on Friday and said it planned to roll it out for all of its services eventually. People who want to use the more secure search option can type “https://www.google.com” into their browser, scrambling the connection so the words and phrases they search on, and the results [...]