It has been reported by associated press that Google search has been completely blocked in China. Although Google says that it was just a minor glitch and all services are working properly in mainland China. There is a complete contradiction in these two statements. The following figure shows that Gmail was not affected at all during this saga.
It is pertinent to mention that Google has been cooperating with Chinese government sensor policies for the last four years but the Google recent pledge in January to no longer censor search results considered to be subversive pornographic. It appears the the Chinese government has finally lost patience with Google for violating its censor policies and this action will surely hit Google very hard financially since China's 400 million web surfers exceeds the entire US population.
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