This week, Google made good on a pledge made earlier this year to stop censoring search results in China.
On March 22, the search giant published a blog post informing users that visitors to Google.cn would be redirected to its uncensored Hong Kong search engine. Search results would still likely be firewalled, but the censorship would be at the hands of the Chinese government, rather than Google.
The move taps into Google's “don't be evil” position, which some feared the ...