Users searching with Google for "Google executives" were given an English link saying "Corporate Information – Google Management" that took them to a page with all information in Chinese – http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html. The site lists Google's executives, among them Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Moving for the first time to ease a high-stakes standoff, China agreed Friday to renew Google's license to do business in the world's largest Internet market despite the Mountain View company's open defiance of the government's censorship policies.
China's decision came a week after Google made some tweaks to how Chinese users access its search engine, giving authorities a face-saving reason not to shut down the Google.cn website. Observers said the Chinese government's decision to accept Google's concessions is a clear indication it doesn't want to scare away Silicon Valley Web 2.0 companies and other overseas firms.
In recent months, foreign businesses, long supportive of China's rise, have grown increasingly critical of government policies that they say favor local industries at the expense of Western companies. Google's faceoff with China had exacerbated the tension.
"It was not a retreat and it was not a chest-pounding victory," said Ed Black, president and CEO of the Computer & Communications Industry Association. "It was a decision not to take this in a more dramatic direction, either way."
After announcing it would no longer censor its search results in China, Google in March began automatically redirecting users of its mainland address, Google.cn, to its Hong Kong site, Google.com.hk, a shift that angered officials. Government
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