After two months of dispute with the Chinese Government, Google has decided to shut down its operations in China which includes shutting down its search engine in that country as well. This comes after a series of hacking attempts on Google servers along with the server of several other firms. The hacking attempt was believed to be originated from China and possibly from the government itself.
Previously, Google had responded to the attack by saying that it may shut down its operation center in China and even stop censoring results coming from the region. The country has one of the biggest government controlled internet censorship in the world and a lot of websites are blocked by this massive firewall. Google previously agreed to censor the search engine results as a bid to start its operation center and a search engine in the country that has one of the largest Internet users on Earth.
However, in 22 March, Google decided to shut down its Google.cn website and reroutes all traffic to the Google.com.hk which is the search engine for people in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong search engine is not censored and this action made by Google had angered the Chinese Government.
It is yet unknown on what the Chinese government would do but chances are, they will block all access to Google.cn.
