The move, announced by Google on Friday, removes another thorn in U.S.-China relations and reflects Beijing’s desire to be seen as friendly to major foreign companies in spite of ideological differences, analysts said.

But analysts said Google’s position in China remained fragile and that the country likely would account for a fraction of Google’s revenue for some time.

Google said on Friday that China had renewed its webpage license, which means it can continue to run the Chinese language search site google.cn.

Last week, Google offered Beijing a face-saving compromise: it stopped automatically rerouting google.cn to its uncensored Hong Kong site. Now, visitors to google.cn must click once to go to the Hong Kong page.

Analysts said Beijing had sent a reassuring signal to foreign businesses that it would play by its own rules while keeping an innovative global company such as Google in its domestic market, where Chinese companies can compete with and learn from it.

Analysts estimate Google’s revenue in China at $300 million to $600 million out of its $24 billion annual revenue. It has around a 30 percent share of China’s 7 billion yuan ($1 billion) search market, which local rival Baidu Inc dominates.

Source : Konaxis

Online illegal and unhealthy information report center said that in recent days, in accordance with the public report and the verification, “Google China” disseminated a large number of the pornographic websites and vulgar information, which was a serious violation of relevant state laws and regulations, contrary to social morality, harmful to the public interest.

In January and April of this year, “Google China” was exposed to the public twice because of the existence of a large number of pornographic and vulgar links by the online illegal and unhealthy information report centers. Recently, the online illegal and unhealthy information report centers again received the public report, and after verification it was found that the “Google of China” website still had a large number of pornographic and vulgar, including a large number of extremely low-level, ugly pornographic images, video and texts. “Google China” website was not in accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations in our country to do a good job of filtering pornographic content of the work, and a large number of foreign pornographic sites disseminated information to Chinese territory through it, which seriously violated the “National People’s Congress Standing Committee on Safeguarding Internet security decision, “and the State Council’s,” Management of Internet Information Services “and other laws and regulations, as well as industry self-regulation norms, seriously harmed physical and mental health of young people, and the public interests.

Reporting Center strongly condemned “Google China” , and at the same time, it also recommended the law enforcement departments to provide relevant punishments and net users to continue to monitor it.

Liu Yun, the newly appointed vice president of Google, says that the company did not pay much attention to the advertisement demand of SMEs in the past, but they will engage the market from now on.

Google AdSense works by registering key words as an advertisement and then placing them on the website of each of Google’s partners so that users can view them when using an online search. Google says that more than one million websites across the world have joined its AdSense network and daily clicks total about 35 billion.

With the launch of this new service, Google has fully joined the fierce competition in the China’s Internet advertisement market that features about 500,000 SMEs.

Source : Chinatechnews