Google.cn closed at 03:03 this morning

People in China found this morning that they could no longer access google.cn, it redirected them to google.com.hk. Some also found that if you seach the name of China's president hujintao on google.com.hk, they could not visit google.com.hk in a few minutes.

 

I am from Australia and when i type google.cn it takes me to the HK site as well. I thought this wont happen till April

 

Looks like they are done with China. I'm just not sure if the redirect was necessary?

 

Wow, that is amazing. Wonder how much this will hurt their profits.

 

one by simplified (Chinese) character writing and the other one is by original complex (Chinese) form.

Like to know : can all old .cn sites remain in G search DBs?

 

I wonder why. China's such a big market

 

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-approach-to-china-update.html

 

Does this mean people from China will still be able to use google for their search needs? If they are being redirected to their Hong kong site, I guess they would still be able to use it.... but only with a different extension!

Regards,

RightMan

 

google is a good search engines online,i do not know why it closed.

 

This is really kind of sad when you think about it. Oppression and people not being able to have access to searching the free world.

 

Good for the people of China I guess, now they can get pure material without any censorship.
I dont know how this will do down with the government though

 

I just go to Google.cn and found the same - being redirected to Google.com.hk. I just went Google.cn yesterday and nothing wrong with it. Farewell Google China.. Sob sob

 

Same for me.

 

Not really.

Google.com.hk does not filter out SERP results according to the policy of the Chinese gov. which means the Chinese will be blocked from accessing Google.com.hk in the near future, as what was to Google.com

Whether or not the Chinese can still use Gmail and other Google service is not sure at the moment.

 

Yes it is directing to .com.hk right now. But you never know what will happen tomorrow as the Government might close all the Google services which are running right now.

Huh!!! Actually there are only two services of Google running and they are google.com and gmail.com

I am sure the Government is planning to close that too within the next week

 

OMG, but why?

 

Do you not read the news? Are you unaware of world events?

 

I think you will find the news all over the news channels now

 

google has closed it's entire operation in china.

 

I think you need to go through the news on the net about this and just switch on the television and you will find this news all over the place.