[DANNY WOOL, SV411]
After months of uncertainty, Google has announced that China has renewed its license to operate in China. The statement came after the search engine company stopped redirecting its Google China URL to a Hong Kong-based page. Hong Kong, while officially part of China, is much more lenient about censorship than the People’s Republic.
The news about the license was kept low key, with Google’s Chief Legal Officer David Drummond making the announcement in a [url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/update-on-china.html]single sentence blog post[/url]: “We are very pleased that the government has renewed our ICP license and we look forward to continuing to provide web search and local products to our users in China.”
And so it seems that the feud between the world’s most populous nation and the world’s most popular search engine has come to an end … for now.