14 DAY TRIAL // After claiming that they haven't compromised their principles when accepting to censor the results returned to the Chinese, one of the founders of the Mountain View company has admitted that a compromise has been made.
"We felt that perhaps we could compromise our principles but provide ultimately more information for the Chinese and be a more effective service and perhaps make more of a difference," Sergey Brin, co-founder of the online giant, told the Associated Press.
The struggle between the online giant and the red giant has ended in favor of the latter, Google agreeing to the rules imposed by the Chinese authorities in order to roll out google.cn.
"In order to operate from China, we have removed some content from the search results available on Google.cn, in response to local law, regulation or policy. While removing search results is inconsistent with Google's mission, providing no information, or a heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information - is more inconsistent with our mission," Andrew McLaughlin, senior policy counsel, told the Associated Press at the time.
The Google official emphasized that the search engine accepted censorship only after the Chinese authorities blocked the service.
In spite of the conflicts Google has had in China, the company founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page opened in April its Beijing research and development center.