Google fully blocked in China
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Google, Internet, News
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Reuters is reporting that Google has been fully blocked in China today, with only a small percentage of users able to get to the website. As a result of Google being blocked, the company’s stock dropped by 1.4% today.

According to Google’s mainland China service page, Web search, Suggest, YouTube, Sites, Ads, Blogger, Picasa, and Mobile are completely unavailable, with Images, News, Docs, and Groups being listed as “partially blocked (10 – 66%).” As of this writing, Gmail is the only Google service that is still available in China.

There has been no official comment from Google or the Chinese government, but it does seem evident that the block came from the Chinese government, and not from Google.

Since the beginning of the year, there has been a lot of controversy between Google and the Chinese government, with Google going as far as threatening to pull all operations out of China.

However, it seems like the Chinese government was happy, at least earlier this month, as they renewed Google’s license to host in the country.

We’ll keep you posted.