"We are very pleased that the government has renewed our [Internet content provider] license and we look forward to continuing to provide Web search and local products to our users in China," said Google on its blog.
"I don't think we gave anything up," she said. "We asked the government to renew our license to make some products that don't require any censorship. We are going to continue to offer uncensored Web search with google.com.hk."
The renewing of Google's ICP license allows the company to continue operating in the communist country, despite its penchant for censorship of Web material.
Without the renewal, Google could be placed in a precarious situation for China is a huge market and definitely a great platform to jumpstart whatever it wants to spear off in the future.
Without this giant platform, Google will be handicapped for a while as Baidu continues to rampage up the charts in terms of its dominance in the search market.
At least for now, Google is back in the game. It just has to be careful to not step on the mines planted by China now. Otherwise, this time Google must be blasted off far enough where it will never be able to return.
Credits -cnn
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