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Google: Search engine blocked in mainland China

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google says people in mainland China are being blocked from using its Internet search engine.
The company posted a Thursday notice about the new barrier without any other details. A Google spokesman in the U.S. says he is still trying to gather information about the situation in China.
It’s the latest [...]

Read More » No commentJuly 30, 2010

Microsoft condemns Yahoo! Japan-Google alliance

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Microsoft on Tuesday denounced Yahoo! Japan’s Internet search alliance with Google, saying it would give Google near-total control over the third-largest market for search queries in the world.
“Google’s plan would cement its position as essentially the sole provider of search results in Japan for years to come,” Microsoft [...]

Read More » No commentJuly 28, 2010

Google expects regulatory OK in China, for now

SUN VALLEY, Idaho – Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday he expects Beijing to renew the license the company needs to continue operating a website in China.
The renewal had been in doubt due to the tense relations between Google and Chinese authorities over censorship of Google search results.
Google closed its China search engine in March [...]

Read More » No commentJuly 9, 2010

Google Web search engine ‘partially blocked’ in China

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Google’s Web search engine in China was “partially blocked” on Wednesday, the deadline for the Chinese authorities to renew the Internet giant’s business license.
“It appears that search queries produced by Google Suggest are being blocked for mainland users in China,” a Google spokesman told AFP. “Normal searches that [...]

Read More » No commentJuly 1, 2010

Google changes China access after Beijing objects

BEIJING – Google Inc. said Tuesday it will stop automatically rerouting users of its China search site to its Hong Kong site after Beijing threatened the company with the loss of its Internet license.
Google shut down its China-based search engine March 22 to avoid cooperating with the communist government’s Internet [...]

Read More » No commentJune 29, 2010

Vietnam rejects Google hacking accusation

HANOI (AFP) – Vietnam has rejected accusations by Internet giant Google that Vietnamese computer users have been spied on and political blogs hacked into.
The US-based firm last week said infected machines had been used both to spy on their owners as well as to attack blogs containing messages of political dissent.
“These are groundless opinions,” Nguyen [...]

Read More » No commentApril 6, 2010

Google pegs China search trouble to ‘Great Firewall’

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google said that a deeper look at trouble with results at its Chinese-language search engine indicated the cause was “The Great Firewall of China” erected by censors there.
The US Internet giant had initially thought that recent changes to its search software had misled China censors into thinking [...]

Read More » No commentMarch 31, 2010

Google to phase out China search partnerships

BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Two days after shutting its Chinese portal over censorship, Google Inc said it plans to phase out deals to provide filtered search services to other online or mobile firms in China.
It has already been shunned by at least one of those partner firms and was attacked by [...]

Read More » No commentMarch 25, 2010

Hong Kong tycoon’s Internet group cuts ties with Google

HONG KONG (AFP) – The Internet company owned by Hong Kong’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, severed ties with Google’s search services Wednesday, sparking concerns that other companies may also pull away from the Web giant.
Stressing its adherence to China’s laws, Hong Kong-listed TOM Group issued a statement on behalf of subsidiary [...]

Read More » No commentMarch 25, 2010

Google urges US to resolve China row

LONDON (AFP) – Google co-founder Sergey Brin urged the US administration to make the censorship row between China and the Internet giant a “high priority”, in an interview published on Wednesday.
Brin said human rights issues should be given “equal time” with trade concerns in comments published by British [...]

Read More » No commentMarch 24, 2010