China Block Google Services

The Chinese government blocks access to several Google services. This is to coincide with the implementation of the 18th national congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

As has been confirmed by Google with The Next Web and also through the website traffic reports from Google, blocking it began on 8 November 2012 in the morning.

Blocking is said to have been made sporadically since the Chinese government to block Youtube services since 2009. However, Google is trying to provide a service and doing business in China.

Still fresh Google finally remembered how to move the services the Chinese version of the Google search engine to Hong Kong in 2010 ago. Displacement is related to Google altercation with authorities Chinese government Internet censorship.

As a result of such transfer, the Google search engine positioning services fell 5%, occupying the 4th position with a market share of 4.72%. As a result until months ago in October 2012, seizing the Internet search engine services business in the country is still very much dominated by the Chinese search engine service made by the bamboo, among others: Baidu (72.97%), Qihoo 360 (9.64%), and Sogou (7.83%).

According to reports GetFire, almost all subdomains of google.com and google.com.hk not be accessed from within the Chinese state. Some of these services include: Gmail, Google Drive, Google Analytics, Google Plus, and Google Play.

However, Chinese users who want to keep using Google services, can use several alternatives, which can be visited multiple IP addresses owned by Google, or visit google.co.uk, and if it had still possible to use the VPN service connected to servers outside China .

This blocking action is not clear background. But some people suspect the Chinese government might be blocking it off after Congress completed. However, if it turns out after the Congress remains in a state of Google services blocked, the blocking policy is done permanently.