It's been a little over a week now since Google first announced that it would be renewing its ICP license, and thus opening up at least one page on Google.cn before the redirect to Google.co.hk in order to do so... and nothing has happened. The company is still waiting for the Internet officials to get back to it. While most people aren't very optimistic about that happening, the company seems to be hoping that throwing up its ICP license number on the G.cn front page will somehow help its chances. more ›

Back in March, after negotiations fell flat with the government on censorship, Google "pulled out" of China, redirecting people who entered Google.cn to its sister site in Hong Kong. Now, since that's run afoul of Chinese laws, Google.cn is back up! Kind of. more ›

The big piece of news over the weekend is that Google is now, in fact, 99.9% certain it will be shutting down its China search engine operations after negotiations... well, didn't go so well? more ›

We're sure that by tomorrow morning, there will be an even bigger slew of news out about Google's recent move (including if they actually are talking to the government, we hear they are at least). But for tonight, here's the latest news on the matter. more ›

Now that everyone's had a little time to digest the news that Google has presented an open challenge to Chinese censorship and cyber attacks, it seems like the general consensus is: Yeah, bye bye G.cn. Google's more or less sure to leave because the chances of the government a) admitting to cyber spying and b) allowing an uncensored version of Google's search engine to go up are pretty much nil. more ›

So we get that Google's really keen to gobble a little more market share from its rivals in China, and one of the most ingenious ways they've figured to do so is their free mp3 download service. We applaud that. What we don't applaud is their ads promoting the service, which seems to have taken the DIY ethic of viral videos to mean "crappy flash creations evoking the earlier parts of this millennium." Add that to Chinese history tales and you get G.cn's newest ad rush: more ›

Mark MacKinnon, Beijing Bureau Chief of the Globe and Mail wrote about this screenshot, sent to him by his Chinese friend of the most searched terms on google.cn during May 19, 2009. What looks like a string of bad arithmetic is... well, we're sure you can guess. It seems that all the efforts of the 50cent army and net nanny can't dampen the curiosity of certain internet-going segments of the population. more ›