The Google-China saga continues. Now the search giant is taking yet another approach to keep Google.cn up and running while not censoring search results.
Started earlier this year when Google announced it would no longer censor Google.cn search results, the Google-China saga has taken a lot of twists and turns. In March, Google redirected Google.cn to its Hong Kong website. However, the tech giant said in a blog post earlier today that the Chinese government find the redirect "unacceptable" and would not allow Google.cn to operate in China if it continued.
Thus Google has announced that it is taking a new approach. Instead of redirecting users to Google.comhk, the company will present users with a landing page that links to Googe.com.hk. From the blog post:
"We have therefore been looking at possible alternatives, and instead of automatically redirecting all our users, we have started taking a small percentage of them to a landing page on Google.cn that links to Google.com.hk—where users can conduct web search or continue to use Google.cn services like music and text translate, which we can provide locally without filtering. This approach ensures we stay true to our commitment not to censor our results on Google.cn and gives users access to all of our services from one page."