时事风云 | 2010.07.09
年检过关：谷歌获得新的网络经营许可
周五，谷歌公司的一名发言人对媒体透露，已获得了新的ICP牌照，公司很高兴能继续为用户提供服务。谷歌自从退出中国大陆的搜索引擎业务 后，中国用户访问Google.cn网页，会自动跳转到Google.hk的搜索引擎。中国当局对此表示不满，谷歌也表示将停止这种做法。因此该公司的经 营许可年检是否过关，引起了媒体界的极大关注。
综合报道：叶宣
责编：潇阳
China Renews Google's License
By LORETTA CHAO And AMIR EFRATIGoogle Inc. said China's government renewed a license the company needed to continue using its Chinese Web address, despite months of tensions over censorship requirements.
The decision preserves the search giant's toehold in the country with the most Internet users. But it won't end the uncertainty around Google's future there, because Beijing may revoke the license at any time or block access to Google's services.
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, at a news conference Thursday after announcing he expected the license to be renewed, said: "Our operations in China are completely at the discretion of the Chinese government. I don't want anyone to be confused about that."
A spokesman for China's Ministry of Industry and Information Industry declined to comment.
Google in March began redirecting queries from mainland China to a version of its search engine it doesn't censor hosted in Hong Kong. But Google stopped the automatic redirect two weeks ago after the Chinese government indicated it wouldn't renew its license if the company continued the practice.
A Difficult Search
Google's Chinese site, google.cn, now requires visitors to click on an image to be redirected to the Hong Kong site for web searches. In recent days, the company has made several services accessible from google.cn itself, including its music search feature, product search and translation services.
"We look forward to continuing to provide web search and local products to our users in China," said Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, in a company blog post.
"What's interesting is that the Chinese government would make this decision after a private company challenged its censorship policy before the eyes of the Chinese people," said Xiao Qiang, a journalism professor at the University of California-Berkeley.
Mr. Xiao, who previously ran a human rights group, said the stand-off is far from over. . "This is the beginning" of what will be a protracted struggle between Google and China, he predicted.
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It's unclear whether Google, which handled 31% of searches in China in the first quarter according to Analysys International, will lose Web traffic or advertisers.
Google has lost some of its search share in China to rivals such as Baidu.com Inc. during its standoff with Beijing, though other services including its Gmail email service continue to be popular, analysts said.
Google said China renewed its Internet license and that the company looks forward to continuing to provide products to "our users in China." Aaron Back and Evan Newmark discuss.
"It'll be interesting to see if this two-click handicap will work for Google commercially," said Duncan Clark, chairman of BDA China Ltd., a consulting firm serving companies seeking to do business or invest in China.
And while Google doesn't censor its Hong Kong site, the government takes measures to limit access to certain content on the Internet. Other Google services, such as video site YouTube, have long been blocked by China.
Separately, Australia's privacy regulator Friday said Google had violated a national privacy law but the government couldn't impose a sanction.
Law-enforcement bodies across the world have been investigating Google's disclosure that its "Street View" vehicles had inadvertently collected personal data from unprotected wireless networks.
The company, as part of an agreement with the Australian regulator, pledged to closely monitor future data collection by its products and wrote a public apology on its Australian blog.
—Kersten Zhang and Jessica E. Vascellaro contributed to this article.Write to Loretta Chao at loretta.chao@wsj.com
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