Google China 1.0. Google launched a Chinese language version of its search engine — google.cn — in 2006. It complied with Beijing's censorship laws.

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What is Google’s relationship with China? Google launched the Chinese-language search engine google.cn in 2006. It was censored to comply with Beijing’s laws, and in 2009, ...

Google China 1.0 Google launched a Chinese language version of its search engine — Google.cn — in 2006. It complied with Beijing’s censorship laws.

It also placed two other U.S. firms on an unreliable entity list that could bar them from investing in China. China and Google have had a long and entangled relationship going back to the early 2000s.

And Google’s executives in China realized they were always one step away from another sanction. The hurdles could be unpredictable, with an element of deniability.

Even though Google's market share climbed from 15% in mid-2006 to 31% today, the company had hoped for a bigger share by now. Kai-Fu Lee, Google China's former president, told me in 2006 that ...

The country blocks access to Google until the G-team wipes out every mention of the G-spot. • September 2009: The guy who ran the Google China operation since its inception steps down from his role.

And it lost the battle: Google had just 14.1 percent of the search market in China during November 2009, compared with Baidu's 62.2 percent, according to ComScore.