On January 5, several Western newspapers including British broadsheet The Guardian reported that the U.S. search engine Google has recently removed the Chinese warning messages that appeared when Mainland China users searched for sensitive topics, with Beijing finding new ways to simply cut users from the web.

In May 2012, Google began inserting warning messages for users in Mainland China if they searched for topics deemed sensitive in the eyes of the Chinese authorities. This caused a heated cat and mouse game between Google and the Chinese government regarding online censorship, with the search engine giant reluctantly admitting defeat recently.

Quoting an unnamed source in China, The Guardian reported that both Google and the Chinese Government got into a particularly heated altercation in December last year, with Google eventually deciding that continuing such technological disputes would only prove to be counterproductive. There were however several attempts by the U.S. search giant to break the Chinese internet restrictions at the time.

Google entered the Chinese market in 2006, though due to similar disagreements with the Chinese authorities, withdrew their operations from Mainland China, transferring their server to nearby Hong Kong.

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