After being on the end of harsh criticism and even having some of its search features blocked by China, Google has promised to completely remove all pornographic content from its indexes on the Chinese version of its search engine, Google.cn.
According to the BBC, Google has quickly complied; the company's communications director, John Pinette said that Google is "undertaking a thorough review of our service and taking all necessary steps to fix any problems with our results."
However, as noted by Techdirt, China's requests have been oddly formulated, suggesting that the pornographic content they're objecting to is Google's property. It definitely seems that way: complaints from CIIRC - China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center - suggest that Google has been "disseminating pornographic and vulgar information." From one of CIIRC reports:
"Public distribution of pornography is illegal in China. Previously, the country had blacklisted 50 websites, including search engines Google, Baidu and MSN China, which were accused of providing obscene content and of being slow to delete erotic materials."