"People tend to think Google quit China, but China didn't quit Google, " said Duncan Clark, chairman of consulting firm BDA China Ltd, referring to Google's advertising services for Chinese companies who want reach people around the globe.
"What we hoped to accomplish with Google China is now being realized by Weibo, " proving that "engagement is the right approach, " said former Google China chief Kai-Fu Lee, who left the company in 2009.
Many former Google China employees lament Google's diminished status in the country.
Microsoft will continue to complain because playing dirty pool is in their corporate DNA. Google has made some stupid mistakes in the last few years (being in China, Google Buzz, poor explanation of capturing WiFi packets, etc.), but compared to Microsoft, they are far better for the consumer in this dimension since Microsoft will do anything and everything to have their way.
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Several months later, however, China renewed Google's license to operate a website in the country.
But in China, Google believes that even limited engagement with the country is better than none at all.
In China, Google has already come under official scrutiny because of Android's dominance of the mobile smartphone market there.
Instead of shuttering its operations in China, Google plans to continue operating there.
Facebook just might have better luck in China than Google has ever had.
GreatFire discovered that said message no longer popped up when searching for various censored terms on Google Search in China, and while Google's confirming that fact, it's unclear what the exact reasoning is.
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Facebook has not entered China while Baidu competed with Google for several years in China.
According to the rumor, taxation authorities discovered during a routine audit that Google China had issued fake invoices.
Amazon has become the first Western technology firm to offer paid-for Android apps in China - beating Google to the lucrative market.
The former president of Google China saw many of his engineers from the search engine move on to form startups and he became convinced that serial entrepreneurs were a good bet to back.
China just blocked them and Google equivocated, then returned to China where its relationship with the authorities remains strained on many levels.
This is what Apple has done to Google by choosing China as the best venue in its challenge to Google Maps.
China has also declared that Google is too strong and implied that China wants self-sufficiency in smartphones, right down to the operating system.
America is pressing China to revalue its currency and Google is threatening to leave China entirely.
They include Apple, Baidu (the Google of China) EMC, Oracle, Juniper, Amazon and QualComm.
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When Google quit China, it left local search market to rival Baidu.
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In June 2011, Google said it had traced to China a cyberattack that attempted to access hundreds of Google email accounts.
These cannot be installed by the user either, without a great deal of fiddling with ROMs. Google Search is of course largely blocked in China, and those devices that do have Google Play can only download free applications: purchases are not supported.
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