Sina Technology News, morning message on October 23, a source revealed this morning on Sina Weibo that Google will withdraw all servers located within China. However, the public relations director of Google China denied this matter. By the time of closing, the mobile phone of Liu Yun, president of Greater China at Google was turned off.
This morning, a message from Sina Weibo caught strong attention from netizens. A source disclosed on Weibo that "Google is retreating and moving all servers located in China."
Regarding this event, the public relations director of Google China responded in a connection with Sina Technology saying "there is no such thing," and denied that Google has a plan to withdraw servers recently. By the time of closing, the mobile phone of Liu Yun, president of Greater China at Google remained turned off.
In December 2008, Li Kaifu, then president of Greater China at Google, revealed that part of Google's servers were being moved from the United States to China. In the future, there would be more localized product planning, and works by overseas engineers would be translated into Chinese and introduced domestically.
In January, during testing, some netizens found that the Google China domain name Google.cn had been redirected to an IP address from Beijing.
On September 4, Google China announced that Li Kaifu, vice president of Google Global and president of Greater China, officially resigned. Yang Wenluo, director of the Shanghai Engineering Research Institute, would take over his R&D responsibilities, while Liu Yun, vice president of Google in charge of sales, would take over his operational responsibilities.
According to a report released not long ago by Analysys International titled "Monitoring Report on China's Search Engine Market for the Second Quarter of 2009", Google China's market share fell below 30% for the first time, while Baidu's share increased to 61.6% compared to the previous quarter. (Meng Hong)