government, which has taken a very close interest in Google's decision to stop coordinating with Chinese government censors. Google specifically declined to comment on whether it coordinated its announcement with either the Chinese government or the U.S. Google representatives declined to comment on its decision regarding China beyond the blog post. Since January, however, the company has said very little about its intentions in China. companies were targeted by the attacks, which Google said resulted in the theft of some of its intellectual property. The announcement came as Google disclosed that it had been the victim of a cyberattack that security experts believe was carried out by hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government, which China has denied. The company had also hinted that it might consider pulling out the country entirely. Google first signaled its intention to change its stance on China in January, when it announced that it no longer intended to censor its search results in China and would shut down Google.cn if an agreement could not be worked out with the Chinese government.

We believe this new approach of providing uncensored search in simplified Chinese from 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 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. 'Figuring out how to make good on our promise to stop censoring search on Google.cn has been hard,' Google said in a statement. The company will maintain a research and development organization in China as well as a sales office, it announced Monday. Google has shut down its Google.cn site and is redirecting users to, where it will offer uncensored Chinese-language search services. Google has made its decision on China: it's moving search to Hong Kong.

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