Google never really left China: a look at the Chinese website Google's been quietly running

More information is leaking out about just how Google is planning to re-enter Chinese market with mobile search application that complies to the censorship laws..   Back June of 2008, Google acquired Chinese website 265.com, known as.   With the success of websites like 265.com and China's search Baidu operating its own directory with its acquisition of Hao123.com, Google launched Google Daohang March 2007.   Ten years later, Google has been collecting from Chinese users searches on 265.com is being used as the framework for Chinese search project they started developing last year..   According to documents, Google's engineers are using this data to develop list of websites blocked China order to provide the relevant, non-blocked search results for queries in its new search app.   Back in the early years of Google.cn, Google operated off of Ganji com's license, ing Chinese company was running its search engine.   Facing scrutiny from Chinese and the media over this license arrangement, in 2007 Google formed joint venture company with Ganji com — Beijing Guxiang Information and Technology Co..   Google has maintained that joint venture and has been operating China under Beijing Guxiang Information and Technology Co ever since.   Even Google's Chinese advertising enterprise has been operating under the joint venture company and, low and behold, 265.com.   whois search of the domain name, ation, pulls up Beijing Guxiang Information and Technology Co as the registrant organization..   Read more