[eNet Silicon Valley Power Feature] Recently, on the fifth day after Google announced its withdrawal from China, the Google incident has made new progress. Yesterday, Google’s attitude loosened. In an interview with foreign media, Google CEO Schmidt denied that Google China had been closed, saying that its employees in China were still working normally, and said that he would start negotiations with the China government in the next few weeks. At the same time, Google Chinese search has now resumed the "filtering" function.

Google announced its withdrawal from China

On January 12th, after David Drummond, Google’s senior vice president and chief legal adviser, announced on Google’s official blog that he planned to leave China, the issue of whether Google China would stay or not once became a hot topic for major media. In the following days, Google refused to interview, and neither made it clear that it wanted to quit nor remained in China. Yao Jian, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, also said on January 15th that neither the Ministry of Commerce nor the Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce had received any reports about Google’s withdrawal of investment in China or its withdrawal from the China market.

Re-filter keywords

On the 13th, a careful netizen found that Google had cancelled a large number of search blocking words, and the blocked content was searched crazily by netizens. Some analysts believe that this move shows Google’s tough stance, and Google is likely to withdraw from China.

Later, some media said that the compensation scheme for employees in China office had been released, and some headhunting companies also said that some employees of Google China had contacted them and were ready to change jobs.

On the 15th,It is also said that Google China has been shut down due to the breakdown of negotiations with the government.

On the 17th, it was reported that Google would negotiate with the government in the next few weeks.

On the 18th, according to foreign media reports, a Google spokesman, who did not want to be named, said that at present, Google’s China office has not been closed, and employees still go to work as usual, and continue to filter the search content as usual. After logging on to Google’s China homepage, the reporter found that its sensitive word search has really started filtering again and returned to normal, as Google said.

What is the fate of Google?

If, according to Google, negotiations will be held with the China government in the next few weeks, then at least it can be concluded that Google.cn still has several weeks to live. Once the negotiations are slow, the answer may not be revealed until March or April. We still need to wait and see where Google’s fate will go. (Xiao Feng Can Moon)