Google Inc. might not be throwing in towel in its fight with Chinese government, but it surely took a step back this week.

Google proclaimed behind that it will no longer automatically forward search traffic from China to its Hong Kong search engine. The statement came just two days prior to Google's license to function in China should be renewed.

The corporation expects the shift pacify Chinese officials, who had endangered to cancel Google's Internet Content Provider (ICP) license if corporation did not stop forwarding search demands from Chinese users.

Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond said the corporation plans to absolute the move in direction above the subsequently few days.

In its place of the routine forward, the Google.cn site at present shows an image of Google search bar over a link that says, "We've moved to Google.com.hk. Please visit our new Web site." pressing on the logo or text gets users to the Hong Kong Web site.

It must be obvious whether the Chinese government believes the cooperation move and will renovate Google's license to carry on doing business in country. Devoid of a license, Google would go dark in China.

Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, said that whereas Google's shift quantity to caving in to Chinese officials, the corporation's executives had few alternatives if they required continuing doing business in China.