What will happen if Google pulls out of China?

Well, Google, the world’s largest search engine threatens to pull out of the world’s most populous country in the wake of some serious cyber attacks to its servers. This possible decision of Google sends tremor across the internet users of China. The number of web users in China will cross over 40 million and if Google materializes its decision, then the big loser will be China. And, this will be a big setback to China and a shame also since, the world’s most populous nation fails to give a shield to the search engine giant.

Google came to such type of sudden decision because it discovered many sophisticated and deliberate cyber attacks on its own servers and on numerous human rights websites. Google detected those attacks originated from within China. This is a crime in the eyes of Google, which was, until some days ago, censoring some search results on it search result page. The censorship of information is contrary to Google policy; still it has to abide the rules of Chinese govt., which do not want some of the information with respect to Taiwan be viewed in China.

If Google truly withdraws its business from China, this will massively affect the net culture of this country. Many a business runs on Google and they will be severely hit by this pull out. Sina Corp. one of the largest internet portals in China, has collaborated with Google offering its search engines bar on its home page. Likewise, China Mobile Ltd., which is the country’s largest mobile carrier, uses Google’s search service on it mobile browsers. In the similar fashion, other internet-based business will be at jeopardy.

We can just wish that everything is sorted out nicely and the Chinese govt. provides protection to Google in the large interest of millions of web users. Moreover, the China should also look into the fact that cyber crimes are tackled with iron hand and that it creates a free atmosphere for right to information to breathe.