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Google merely closed their office in China and (passively) stopped offering their search and mail services. The money making part of Google (AdSense, Android) h
by Laforet 7y ago
Google merely closed their office in China and (passively) stopped offering their search and mail services. The money making part of Google (AdSense, Android) has been making a killing in China over the past decade. Despite the posturing on both sides, the relationship between Google and the Chinese regime is much cosier than people often assume.
- mda 7y agoI don't think Chinese Regime and Google are any close to each other, your other remarks are also inaccurate.
- Laforet 7y agoWhich part of my post was inaccurate? Google still has access to the google.cn domain as well as several valid ICP licenses; a number of services (fonts, firebase and chrome/SDK downloads to name a few) are accessible from China hosted on a Google affiliated server in Beijing. AdWords have been thriving in China for a number of years and even the localised version of Google maps (ditu.google.cn) is still being maintained despite a nonexistent user base. None of this would have been possible if the government is actually hostile to Google in the way you believe.
- whenchamenia 7y agoSource? It seems accurate, but someone is silently downvoating without clarifying, I feel in bad faith.