Users have been reporting online that Gmail services are slowly returning, according to engadget.com.
Traffic has picked up on Google’s Transparency Report and Gmail appears to be at least partially available, although, according to the Financial Times, people are still experiencing delays whilst others still have no access at all.
The Global Times published an op-ed yesterday denying state involvement in the sudden shutdown, whilst simultaneously reminding Google that it would be welcome, “...on the prerequisite that it obeys Chinese law...”
Google withdrew from China in 2010 following conflicts over censorship issues and has been blocked on the mainland ever since.
Source: engadget.com
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Better off without it. China should develop its own answer to gmail. Monopolies are never a good thing.
Jan 03, 2015 11:07 Report Abuse
Tencent QQ already did it - QQ Mail... My Chinese friends says it's unsafe for business and censored more than other Chinese email services... Not sure why, maybe because it's the only Chinese email with English version.
Jan 04, 2015 12:39 Report Abuse
There are already a bunch of Chinese mail services available. I wouldn't trust any of them for business, but to be fair I don't trust Google, Outlook, Yahoo or any free mail service either. Tencent is OK for your daily garbage.
Jan 04, 2015 13:50 Report Abuse
yeah, i think so. my chinese part of company was forced to create QQ business mail, for us inside to communicate. I received 4 pages of instruction how to set up gates and other things in pc. Hoho, i never do that things, and not for chinese software.
Jan 04, 2015 22:07 Report Abuse
@Nessquick: Just curious, is QQ Business better than regular QQ email? And does anybody knows any other Chinese email in English (other than QQ)?
Jan 05, 2015 13:29 Report Abuse
I do not know, I do not use it. I have them, because came with account, but do not use. I do not see nothing different, only on the end of the email address is our company name, not @qq.com
Jan 06, 2015 11:57 Report Abuse
It's not worth the hassle for Google to operate in China. China is not a foreign friendly country to do business - it's that simple. With this new government, things are even tougher.
Jan 02, 2015 10:15 Report Abuse
or, why bother changing to suit China. Google will be fine without China and China will copy whatever google does in the rest of the world. Everyone wi.... doesn't care either way
Jan 01, 2015 16:26 Report Abuse
Google was almost the only company who saw right through China from the beginning and didn't get conned into accepting more and more stupid rules just to finally end up sucking the same restrictions as other foreign companies. However the market could be more interesting than people think if in a fair environment (Google makes money at the lower end, and China is a low end country), they certainly had some hint into China's game. Surely owning everyone's mail helped. Agreed I don't think they really cry over not being in China at the end of the day. Doesn't matter, the Chinese Internet giants own nothing of value anyway. No tech, no patent, no intellectual property of any value. Their only asset is an exclusive asset of 1.4 billion of people, only a fraction of which live in modern material condition, and only a micro fraction of which live in acceptable educational condition.
Jan 02, 2015 09:56 Report Abuse
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