Past five days of waiting, Google is yet in dark about whether corporation's operating license in China will be rehabilitated. As of Monday morning, Beijing time, the search engine massive had yet to hear back from Chinese government about license, said Jessica Powell, a Google lecturer.

The license, which is issued by Chinese authorities, is essential for Google to carry on operating its China-based Web site, Google.cn. But tensions among the corporation and Chinese officials have put the license's regeneration in hesitation.

In March, Google determined to stop edit the consequences to its Google.cn search engine by shutting the site down. All internet traffic from the site was then forward to Google's uncensored Hong Kong search engine.

The move speedily infuriated Chinese officials, who demanded that the corporation obey with Chinese laws that need corporation to censor search results.

At present, with Google's operating license up for regeneration the corporation has decided to take a step back from its preceding actions in a bid to obey with government demands.

Last week, Google.cn was restored as a "landing page," where users are given a link to the corporation's Hong Kong page quite than mechanically redirected to it.