by MATTHEW PANZARINO, the Next Web
Google has had a long history of battles in China, where its search engine has been the subject of scrutiny and censorship by the government. Searching for certain terms on Google in China has caused users to lose connection to Google for a minute or more after the search was performed. Google says that these connection errors are ‘out of its control’, but that it has determined which particular Chinese characters are causing the most problems when used in search terms. Now, Google will notify Chinese users if their particular search term is going to trigger this kind of connection interruption, dropping down a notification to warn them ahead of time.
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