All of this mess with Google, China, and Google China has come to a head as of late.

Now, it seems that the word getting pushed around is that Google is about to close up shop and it is happening sooner than everyone has imagined it would.

Google has been optimistic about their presence in China, with some assuming that the company would shift in their views and positions or at least figure out a way to work with the Chinese government to meet both their needs. However, there is no surprise that the two of them probably could not compromise. Even if the last few things swirling around were that Google…

Over the past few weeks, a number of reports state that Google China is shutting down. Now, it looks like Google has come up with a solution to their censorship row with the Chinese Government.

Google.cn now re-directs to Google.hk, so anyone in China who goes to Google.cn will see search results from Google.hk, which Google are calling an ‘entirely legal’ way of giving people in mainland China unfiltered search results.

Although many of the results will be blocked by firewalls in China, so maybe this isn’t really a solution for Chinese Google users. The Chinese government has responded to the move by Google saying “Google has violated its written promise it…