Google in China vs. "China's Google
" Google's Answer to Its Chinese Question
Google launched its Chinese language version in 2000 and its popularity quickly grew through word of mouth among Chinese Internet surfers. The company did well until September 2002, when Google was blocked by the "Great Firewall of China a political rift over censorship with the Chinese government and was denied rights to China. While Google's company Web site proclaimed, "Google--the closest thing the Web has to an ultimate answer machine, it did not have an answer to its one big China question: how can we go into China and yet not do evil?