Google's journey in China has been complex, marked by strategic retreats and limited re-engagements. As of February 2025, while many of Google's consumer services remain inaccessible within mainland China, the company maintains a presence through specific business operations. However, Google's standing in China faces fresh challenges as the Chinese government recently launched an antitrust probe into the company's activities. This move comes amid rising tensions over trade and technology between China and the United States.Google's Current Business Presence in China1. Sales and AdvertisingGoog...

IntroductionIf you're only using gRPC at the application layer, I believe studying the examples on the gRPC official website is sufficient. However, when planning to extensively use gRPC within a team, you will face many challenges, such as authentication schemes between services, routing solutions for multi-region services, and compatibility solutions with existing RESTful services.I recently realized that applying a technology stack requires mastering a wealth of information about that stack to ensure its stability in production use. This article starts with the most basic packet capturing a...

Google just completed a domain transfer to another company in China. The interesting part is that this domain transfer is for free. The story begins with a recent tweet from the CEO Dash Huang of a Chinese game company called X.D. Network Inc who claims that they obtained the domain name taptap.cn from Google for free.From the tweet, Mr. Huang expressed his appreciation to Google for freely transferring the domain name taptap.cn to their company. Their company launched some product called taptap which is a game lookup community and they were trying to register the domain name bu...

Since the trade war between China and US, lots of services are not allowed to be used on Huawei devices as a series of procedures enforced by US government to restrict China. These services include the Google Play services which are used for downloading Android apps on Android devices. This has brought big trouble to Huawei users as they are not able to download apps available for all other Android devices. Fortunately, there are ways for people to get Google services installed on Huawei devices with some more steps after getting a new Huawei device. In this post, we will show how to inst...

Owing to a major policy change, YouTube is introducing new changes in the ways the videos are streamed on its channel. YouTube being the giant video sharing website is all set to work on a long list of policies regarding the content of videos on its channel. The shift in the policies has been introduced by the Google so that hate speech videos can be taken down by the channel. The most important concern behind the policy shift is to eliminate the videos that are influential in nature. There are a number of videos streaming on YouTube that come under hate speech category. These videos prea...

Google is an expert when it comes to big data. This is evident in their development of various techniques and open source tools which are used by the big data industry professionals. These tools and technique allow Google to sift through millions of different websites and enormous amounts of data in order to provide users with correct answers in a matter of milliseconds. But how does Google accomplish that with such precision? To answer that, we need to focus on the complex activities that go on behind every search query.Entering the search queryGoogle has always wanted to make a search engine...

There will be news about Google returning back to China every now and then since the search giant left China in 2010. Every sign of change about Google in China will give people big hope on its return. But Chinese are still waiting for the dream to become true though nothing real happen until now.On Thursday, it seems there is "proof" again that Google is going back to China. In the morning, many Chinese noticed that the official Google China weibo(China's Twitter) account uploaded a photo with the new Google logo standing in front of Google China building in Beijing and a message said "Good m...

Google now is known almost by everyone who has internet access. It's the most frequently accessed search engine around the world and it provides fast speed and high quality search results. While you are using Google, have you ever wondered how the name Google comes?According to Steven Levy, the author of the book In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives.The original name for the project was named BackRub and was coded by Sergey Brin. He was thinking that web pages made their outgoing links transparent because those links were built into the code and were easily identifiable....