{"id":484772,"date":"2010-03-29T12:30:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T16:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=109002"},"modified":"2010-03-29T12:30:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T16:30:47","slug":"china-now-blocking-google-mobile-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/484772","title":{"rendered":"China Now Blocking Google Mobile Services"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google’s mobile services are at least partially blocked for users in mainland China, according to the page that Google set up recently to track which of its services are available<\/a> to users in that country (the LA Times appears to have been the first to notice<\/a> the change to Google’s China services page). The search giant recently stopped filtering its Chinese search results, in contravention of Chinese law, and moved its servers<\/a> to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

When it did so, the official Google blog post said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We very much hope that the Chinese government respects our decision, though we are well aware that it could at any time block access to our services. We will therefore be carefully monitoring access issues, and have created this new web page, which we will update regularly each day, so that everyone can see which Google services are available in China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not clear how or why the Chinese government is blocking access to mobile services such as search, maps, Gmail, etc. Certain additional services have also been partially blocked — including Picasa, Google Groups and Google Docs — while others are blocked entirely, including Blogger, Google Sites and YouTube.<\/p>\n

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Last week, China Unicom — the second-largest mobile operator in China — said that it won\u2019t install Google search<\/a> on its new Android handsets as a result of Google\u2019s actions. China’s mobile market is immense: the leading mobile provider, China Mobile, said last fall that it now has more than half a billion<\/a> mobile subscribers. For an overview of some of the recent news about China and Google, check out our recent post<\/a> explaining what you need to know.<\/p>\n

Post and thumbnail photos courtesy<\/a> of Flickr user El Struthio<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Related content from GigaOM Pro (sub req’d):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is Google\u2019s China Problem a Groundswell of the Closed Internet?<\/a><\/p>\n

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