China’s state-run Xinhua news agency in a signed commentary accused Google for breaking promised. It said that while entering in the Chinese market and before starting business, the search giant has promised to filter harmful and objectionable content but now suddenly they want to break their promise and criticizing the country for worsening of the investment environment.

On the other hand Google co-founder Sergey Brin has urged the US administration to make the censorship row between China and the Internet giant a “high priority”, in an interview published on Wednesday.

Google said it would no longer filter results on China based Google.cn and was redirecting mainland Chinese users to an uncensored site in Hong Kong effectively closing down the mainland site.

Updates:

China portal takes over two services:

Popular Chinese web portal Tianya.cn said it is taking over operation of two services developed and formerly operated with Google after the search giant took a risky stand against China’s strict internet censorship rules by moving its search engine offshore.

Hong Kong tycoon’s internet firm cuts ties

The internet firm owned by Hong Kong’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, severed ties with Google’s search services, sparking concerns that other companies may pull away too. Hong Kong-listed TOM Online said it would adhere to China’s laws.

Censorship still on for some customers

Google Inc is still censoring search content for some of its customers in China. The decision to provide censored searches was made to honor contracts with current business partners, and Google will continue to meet those commitments, it said.

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