Did Google Forget to Get a License in China?

This via ZDNet:

"Internet search giant Google's controversial expansion into China now faces possible trouble with regulators after a Beijing newspaper said its new Chinese-language platform does not have a license.

The Beijing News reported on Tuesday that Google.cn, the company's recently launched service that accommodates the China's censorship demands, "has not obtained the ICP (Internet content provider) license needed to operate Internet content services in China."

The Ministry of Information Industry, which regulates China's Internet, was "concerned" and investigating the problem, the paper said."

I'll report more on this as it develops. Meanwhile, read my Web Search editorial, Google and Censorship in China.

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