Google 99.99% Sure It's Out of China – General

news.yahoo.com — Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday.
It said in a report on its website Google had drawn up detailed plans for closing its Chinese search engine.

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ndmagxian 1 year 46 weeks ago

What I cannot read anywhere until now is: WHAT services Google will pull out of China? Is it just goggle.cn (For sure) or are other services affected as well? If they close "Google Maps", i will emmigrate to Japan :-).

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