【英语科技】更新：谷歌为保在华经营地位再出新招

Google Inc. (GOOG) said it would change how Chinese users access its Internet search service after the Chinese government threatened to revoke the company's license to provide online content in that country.

It's unclear whether the government will approve the change and renew Google's license, which the company said expires on June 30.

The move comes three months after Google stopped self-censoring its Internet search results in China, after complaining in January that it had been hit with a cyber attack that it said came from that country. China's own Internet filters now censor Google's searches.

Google had been automatically redirecting users of Google.cn, which is based in mainland China, to a Hong Kong-based site, Google.com.hk, that doesn't censor search results.

But the Chinese government has told the company that approach was 'unacceptable,' according to a Monday post on the company's blog.

In response, Google said over the next few days it would stop the automatic redirect. Instead, visitors to Google.cn will be able to click on an icon that transports them to a new version of Google.com.hk. On the new site, users can access some services that had once been powered by Google.cn, such as product search and text translate, which don't require self-censoring by the company.

The main Internet search engine on the Web page would still yield unfiltered results via Google.com.hk.

The company said it had submitted its Internet license renewal application based on the changes.

'This new approach is consistent with our commitment not to self censor and, we believe, with local law,' wrote David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, on the company blog. 'We are therefore hopeful that our license will be renewed on this basis so we can continue to offer our Chinese users services via Google.cn,' he wrote.

在中国政府威胁将取消其在中国提供网上内容的许可证之后，谷歌公司(Google Inc.)说将改变中国用户接入其互联网搜索服务的方式。

尚不清楚政府是否将批准这一变化并延长谷歌公司的许可证有效期。谷歌公司说其许可证将于6月30日到期。

中国外交部发言人秦刚在周二的例行记者会上说，他尚未看到谷歌公司的新声明。他重申了中国的立场，即中国政府鼓励外资企业依法在华运营，也依法管理互联网。

中国工业和信息化部发言人周二说，无法对记者提出的置评要求做出回应。

Associated Press谷歌表示将停止将搜索要求自动转至谷歌香港网站的做法。图为北京谷歌中国总部。今年1月，谷歌公司说受到了据称来自中国的网络攻击。三个月前，谷歌停止在中国自行审查其互联网搜索结果。目前，中国使用自己的互联网过滤器审查谷歌的搜索结果。

谷歌在过去一段时间内把登陆中国内地网站──Google.cn的用户自动转到不审查搜索结果的香港网站──Google.com.hk。

但据周一张贴在谷歌公司博客上的一个贴子说，中国政府已告诉这家公司，这种方式是“不可接受的”。

作为回应，谷歌表示未来几天内它将停止将搜索要求自动转至谷歌香港网站的做法。取而代之的做法是，当访问Google.cn网站的用户点击一个图标后，将可转至一个新版Google.com.hk网站。在这个新网站，用户能够接入一些Google.cn曾提供的服务，如产品搜索和文本翻译，中国政府未要求谷歌对这些服务进行自我审查。

谷歌仍将通过Google.com.hk 在网页上提供未经过滤的搜索结果。

谷歌公司称，在做出这些改变的基础上，它已向中国政府申请延续其互联网许可证的有效期。

谷歌的首席法律长庄孟德(David Drummond)在该公司的博客上写道，这一新做法符合我们不自我审查的承诺，而且我们相信它也符合当地法律。他说，我们因此希望谷歌的互联网许可证基于这一情况将获得延续，以便我们能够继续通过Google.cn向中国用户提供服务。