Google May Lose China Permit on Government Objections

Google Inc. may lose the right to operate a website in China, forcing the search-engine operator to abandon the world’s largest Web market, after the government objected to its efforts at avoiding censorship controls.

Authorities probably won’t renew Google’s Internet license if the company keeps automatically redirecting users of the Chinese service to its Hong Kong site, Google said in a blog post. To keep Google.cn running, the search-engine operator is planning to stop taking users directly to the unfiltered site, according to statement.