INTERNET titan Google stopped censoring its search engine in China on Monday in a move that was hailed by rights groups but risks angering the Chinese authorities.
Google said it had ended censorship of its Chinese-language search engine Google.cn and was redirecting mainland Chinese users to an uncensored site in Hong Kong.
Google also said it intended to continue research and development work in China and maintain a sales presence there.
Google's lifting of censorship on Google.cn comes a little more than two months after the Mountain View, California-based company said it had been the victim of cyberattacks originating from China.
'Figuring out how to make good on our promise to stop censoring search on Google.cn has been hard,' Google chief legal officer David Drummond said in a blog post. 'Earlier today we stopped censoring our search services - Google Search, Google News, and Google Images - on Google.cn,' he added.
'Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong.' Mr Drummond expressed hope the Chinese authorities would not seek to block Google services, which also include sites such as YouTube.
- Tom Lee
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