Internet search services provider Google Inc. has announced that China has renewed its Internet licence, after the company's local venture pledged to allow its Web content to be supervised by regulators. An official with China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology confirmed that the licence was renewed for another year for Beijing Guxiang Information Technology, the operator of Google's China website.
Google received approval to operate in China after it agreed to stop rerouting users of Google.cn to its site in Hong Kong, which is not subject to China's online censorship. Search requests at Google.cn from within mainland China will now require an extra click that then takes the user to the Hong Kong site.
China's decision to allow Google to continue operations has resolved a lengthy dispute that had threatened the company's future in the country. In January 2010, Google threatened to exit the Chinese market after cyber attacks originating from the nation targeted its systems. The attacks were aimed at obtaining personal data and proprietary information belonging to human-rights activists who use the company's Gmail e-mail service.
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