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Google Maps will quit China?

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Google has yet to apply for the necessary state license to operate its online mapping service in China, putting another Google product in jeopardy as the first deadline looms.


China's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping said in an e-mail that as of March 28, it has not received an application from Google. The bureau has said that companies operating an online mapping service without a license will be exposed to the public after the March 31 deadline.


Since 2008, online mapping services have committed more than 1,000 violations including unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and mistakes in drawing the country’s border, Xinhua reported.

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As of mid-February, the bureau had granted licenses to 105 websites for mapping services, including Baidu, Sina Corp., a Nokia Oyj joint venture and China Mobile Ltd., Xinhua said. The bureau has pledged to close unapproved websites.


The Bureau said applications for license must be made by March 31, to avoid “administrative actions” it will take by July 1. The Bureau this month vowed “resolute punishment for serious violations,” such as closing websites.


Baidu is the dominant search engine in China, with a 75 percent share. And recently one of Google’s key partners in China, the portal Sina, dropped Google as its search engine in favor of its own (mystery) search technology.


Presumably if Google didn’t meet the requirements — vague as they appear to be — it would no longer be able to operate Google Maps in the country.



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Edited from WS Journal----

Google Losing Ground in China

A year after Google Inc. moved its search services out of China, the Internet giant is struggling to maintain traction on a range of businesses in the country despite its executives' desire to keep growing in the wake of a feud with the Chinese government.

Chinese online media company Sina Corp. said this week that it dropped Google's Web search service from its popular portal site, marking an end to one of its most important remaining partnerships in the market.

At the same time, Google's Gmail free email service has become difficult to use in China; the company blames stepped up efforts by censors to disrupt Gmail access.

Meanwhile, new regulations to tighten oversight of online map providers make the future of Google's map service in China unclear. On Thursday—the deadline for applying for new online mapping licenses—Google said it was in discussions with the government on how it can continue operating the service. It wouldn't comment on the likely outcome of those talks.

The developments are the latest signs that significant parts of Google's business in China, home to more than 450 million Internet users, have been unraveling since last March. It was then that Google replaced its self-censored China search service with an unfiltered version based in Hong Kong, citing censorship and cyberattacks that the company said were traced to Chinese hackers.

The company's share of search market revenue in China dropped to 19.6% last quarter from 35.6% a year earlier, or just before Google's announcement, according to research firm Analysys International.

Chinese rival Baidu Inc. has thrived in the wake of weakened competition from Google, increasing its share of search market revenue to 75.5% in the fourth quarter from 58.4% in the last three months of 2009, according to Analysys.

Meanwhile, Android phones shipped officially in China from Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. come pre-installed with links to search products by Baidu and Microsoft Corp.'s Bing, but not Google.

Google president of Asia-Pacific operations Daniel Alegre said in January that Google is still committed to China and continues to invest "aggressively." He didn't provide details.

Google spokeswoman Jessica Powell said Thursday growth in China isn't dependent on Web search traffic there, and that the company continues to experience growth in revenue from China through sales of ads on its international websites purchased by Chinese companies targeting overseas users, as well as display ads on third-party websites.

But in the past year, Google's deals to provide technical support and Web search services to partners such as online forum operator Tianya.cn and Tom Group Ltd., also have ended—in part because the company is phasing out agreements to provide censored content to its partners.

Executives have said the partnerships with these popular Chinese websites played an important role in helping the company boost its popularity among Chinese Internet users. Ms. Powell said the company continues to work with "hundreds of partners," large and small, in China.

Google's own Transparency Report shows that traffic from users in China has gradually decreased as a percentage of overall global traffic, to below 20% now from around 30% before the change.

State media outlets are also launching Web search and microblogging products of their own. In February, the People's Daily, flagship newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, hired the former head of Google's research institute in China as its chief scientist.

Google said earlier this month that government blocks were to blame for Gmail disruptions.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman rejected that claim, saying "We do not accept this type of accusation."

Others say Google is the biggest loser from its decision. "The Chinese Internet has moved on," said Bill Bishop, a Beijing-based investor who follows the Chinese Internet industry, pointing to the continued growth of Chinese Internet firms, including a slew of initial public offerings in the sector since Google's decision. Google is "just basically descending into irrelevancy here," he said.

Google's top executives were split about how to handle China ahead of last year's exit decision. Then-Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, who initially advocated opening a search engine in China, resisted the push to cease censoring.
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