Jun 19th, 2009 - InformationWeek
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Google executives in China met with representatives of the Chinese government on Thursday "to discuss problems with the Google.cn service and its serving of pornographic images and content based on foreign language searches," a company spokesperson confirmed Friday.According to a report from Xinhua, the government-run news agency, Chinese authorities began blocking certain "Chinese-language results from any country."
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