Search giant Google has ‘inconspicuously’ pulled out of China due to the recent flair up between the two bodies regarding internet censorship and a recent hack of Google’s systems originating in China. This delicate chess game has moved forward one more step as Google has now redirected all of its Google.cn traffic to its uncensored Hong Kong site Google.hk.
Users of Google.cn will still see filtered results however, due to China’s firewall. The move is more strategic on Google’s part rather than helping the cause of censorship in China. Google will no longer be filtering content on their own servers for China, but will be leaving the filtration to China itself.