Mar 23, 2010
Google set on leaving China
Google took a bold step today and is in the process of moving out of China. In the controversial move about over censorship by the Chinese government, Google is currently redirecting all of the traffic from www.google.cn to the HK domain. Other than censorship, Google was hard hit by hackers which they believe that it came from China.
In Hong Kong, Google should technically enjoy less censorship as Hong Kong which is is a special administrative region of China and enjoys more freedom, including an uncensored Internet, than mainland China.
On that note, web users in China are still having their internet searches filtered at a higher level with the Golden Shield Project aka Great Firewall of China.
Unconfirmed reports are saying that Google will exit China by April 10, 2010. I am wondering about how is Google going to make up the est $600 million / year revenue that Google generated in China. Either way, this will absolutely help Baidu defending its marketshare.
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