Google宣布退出中国转香港 搜索结果无禁忌

举世瞩目的Google与中国大陆的这场网络战争，终见分晓。Google今天正式宣布关闭中国大陆搜索服务 google.cn ，目前进入 google.cn ，会被转至香港 Google 网站，即 google.com.hk 。

Google 22 日在官方部落格宣布，停止对中国大陆的搜寻审查，今天凌晨，民众如果上网连到 google.cn 即会被引导至香港 Google ，该网站下方还标示了“欢迎您来到 Google 搜索在中国的新家”字样。

Google 停止的搜寻服务审查包括： Google 网页搜寻、 Google 新闻，以及 Google 图片。不过， Google 在中国大陆的研发机构和销售部门将继续保留。

谷歌今天凌晨宣布退出中国市场。谷歌（Google）今天宣布不再过滤中文搜寻引擎的搜寻结果。法务长庄孟德（David Drummond）仍希望继续在中国进行研发，并在当地维持销售业务。谷歌希望将搜寻服务由中国转至香港。

声明说：今天早晨我们停止对Google.cn搜索服务——谷歌搜索、谷歌新闻和谷歌图像的过滤。访问Google.cn将被导至Google.com.hk，在此网站提供未经过滤的简体中文搜索结果，专门为中国大陆用户设计，并通过在香港的服务器提供。

声明说，该公司计划将研发工作留在中国，并在当地维持销售业务。Drummond在声明中说：“我们打算继续在中国的研发工作，也将维持那里的销售，当然销售团队的规模显然会根据大陆用户能够访问Google.com.hk情况而定。”

最后，Drummond特别强调所有这些决定都是由美国的管理人员做出和执行的，中方员工不对谷歌离开中国大陆承担责任。

现在通过Google.cn 搜索被墙的关键词敏感词，显示的文章同Google.com的搜索结果相似，已经是原汁原味的搜索结果, 不过墙内估计还是被墙过滤的结果。

Google宣布对中国的新政策发布者其官方博客上，全文如下：

A new approach to China: an update

3/22/2010 12:03:00 PM
On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence to suggest that the Gmail accounts of dozens of human rights activists connected with China were being routinely accessed by third parties, most likely via phishing scams or malware placed on their computers. We also made clear that these attacks and the surveillance they uncovered—combined with attempts over the last year to further limit free speech on the web in China including the persistent blocking of websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Docs and Blogger—had led us to conclude that we could no longer continue censoring our results on Google.cn.

So earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong. Users in Hong Kong will continue to receive their existing uncensored, traditional Chinese service, also from Google.com.hk. Due to the increased load on our Hong Kong servers and the complicated nature of these changes, users may see some slowdown in service or find some products temporarily inaccessible as we switch everything over.

Figuring out how to make good on our promise to stop censoring search on Google.cn has been hard. We want as many people in the world as possible to have access to our services, including users in mainland China, yet the Chinese government has been crystal clear throughout our discussions that self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement. We believe this new approach of providing uncensored search in simplified Chinese from Google.com.hk is a sensible solution to the challenges we've faced—it's entirely legal and will meaningfully increase access to information for people in China. We very much hope that the Chinese government respects our decision, though we are well aware that it could at any time block access to our services. We will therefore be carefully monitoring access issues, and have created this new web page, which we will update regularly each day, so that everyone can see which Google services are available in China.

In terms of Google's wider business operations, we intend to continue R&D work in China and also to maintain a sales presence there, though the size of the sales team will obviously be partially dependent on the ability of mainland Chinese users to access Google.com.hk. Finally, we would like to make clear that all these decisions have been driven and implemented by our executives in the United States, and that none of our employees in China can, or should, be held responsible for them. Despite all the uncertainty and difficulties they have faced since we made our announcement in January, they have continued to focus on serving our Chinese users and customers. We are immensely proud of them.

Posted by David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer