For these who support google's business in China, I want to ask there FxxKers, how about apply the services for you? There's an old saying in China: "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
Just tried it. Not good for projects depending heavily on 3rd party libs. I have to define all the interfaces in a 'interface file' to keep 'flow' silent. This seems an impossible job for our project.
Censor its search results? You mean Microsoft cope with the government to filter the result. Great! Today they filter the results. Tomorrow they will share the user data with government.
You are right, Google is not actually blocked by GFW. If you search something the government think it's sensitive (just they think), they will block you from Google for serveal minutes. After that, you can connect to Google again. I say, what the hell is that? Fuck the government.
The reason is obvious in China. Google is blocked by GFW, but Bing is not. So, there must be some dirty business between Microsoft and government of China. If Microsoft can do this in China, they can do this anywhere, even in USA.