Google China
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Privately held company |
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| Founded | 2005 |
| Headquarters | Beijing, China |
| Area served | China |
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| Industry | Internet, Computer software |
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| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 64 (JULY 2016[update]) |
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| Chinese | 谷歌 | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Gǔgē |
Coordinates: 39°59′34″N 116°19′24″E / 39.99278°N 116.32333°E
Google China is a subsidiary of Google. Google China ranked as the number 3 search engine in the People's Republic of China, after Baidu and Soso.com. In 2010, searching via all Google search sites, including Google Mobile, were moved from mainland China to Hong Kong.
By November 2013 its search market share had declined to 1.7% from its August 2009 level of 36.2%.
In the Republic of China, a separate search engine for Taiwanese users, Google Taiwan is also used in Taiwan and the other islands.
Google China was founded in 2005 and was originally headed by Kai-Fu Lee, a former Microsoft executive and the founder in 1998 of Microsoft Research Asia. Microsoft sued Google and Kai-Fu Lee for the move, but reached a confidential settlement. Google's Beijing office was initially located at NCI Tower.
In 2005 a Chinese-language interface was developed for the google.com website. In Jan 2006 Google launched its China-based google.cn search page, with results subject to censorship by the Chinese government.
The Beijing office was moved to Tsinghua Science Park in early 2006. Since September 2006 the office has been a ten-floor building in Tsinghua Science Park, near the east gate of Tsinghua University.
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