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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (7) Slideshow Video Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared U.S. puts brakes on "virtual" border fence 16 Mar 2010 U.S. air travelers complain about body scans 16 Mar 2010 U.S. missile strikes kill 6 militants in Pakistan 12:35am EDT UPDATE 1-Fox to mine "Avatar" DVD release three times 16 Mar 2010 China digs in heels on yuan as U.S. raises pressure | Video 2:42am EDT UPDATE 1-Liberty ends WorldSpace radio deal talks 16 Mar 2010 Q+A-How closed are China's commodity futures market? 03 Sep 2009 Honda to recall 412,000 vehicles in U.S. for brakes 16 Mar 2010 Afghanistan confirms blanket pardon for war crimes 16 Mar 2010 U.S. puts brakes on "virtual" border fence 16 Mar 2010 Google partners call for clarity on China plans BEIJING Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:13am EDT Factbox Factbox: Twists and turns in Google's China saga 1:13am EDT Related Video China warns Google again Tue, Mar 16 2010 < 1 / 3 > View Full Size BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese firms selling advertising space on Google's search pages have demanded clarity about the Internet company's plans in China, warning they will demand compensation if it shuts its Chinese portal. Technology | Media | China The warning from Chinese online advertising sales companies comes amid signs that Google Inc may soon move to close Google.cn, more than two months after it hit back against sophisticated hacking attacks from inside China and said it was no longer willing to offer a censored search engine. Google and China have been tight-lipped since then about any talks to reconcile their differences. A letter purportedly from 27 Google-authorized sales representative companies says the wait has gone on for too long, eroding their business, scaring off employees and putting big investments in jeopardy. "We see a constant stream of information but cannot predict the future, we see business sliding, but there is nothing we can do," says the letter, which was also posted on a website affiliated with China's central television. "We are waiting now in incomparable pain and disquiet." Google has received the letter and is reviewing it, spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said. The companies spell out demands for redress -- for investors, employees and clients -- that could add to the economic and political pressures on Google if it shuts down Google.cn and perhaps withdraws other operations from China. Some of the signatories, contacted by Reuters, would not comment on the letter, but said that neither their affiliation with Google.cn nor the fight between Google and the government had hurt their business. The Wall Street Journal quoted one anonymous source who confirmed the contents of the letter, but added that not all the signatories had been involved in drafting the letter. The companies sell advertising spots on Google search-result pages tied to certain searches. COMPENSATION The letter demands that Google develop a plan spelling out when customers' pre-payments for advertising will be returned to them, how employees of the advertising agents thrown out of work will be compensated, and how the companies themselves will be compensated for investments. Addressed to Google's top executive for China, John Liu, it demands negotiations with the company. A commerce ministry spokesman on Tuesday warned Google to obey Chinese laws and rules, including alerting the ministry to any exit plans. Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, said last week he hoped to have an outcome soon from talks with Chinese officials on offering an uncensored search engine in that country of 384 million Internet users. Many experts doubt China's ruling Communist Party would compromise on censorship. The Financial Times reported at the weekend the talks had reached an impasse and Google was "99.9 percent" certain to shut Google.cn. A Google spokesperson said on Monday that talks with Chinese authorities had not ended, but added that the company was adamant about not accepting self-censorship. China requires Internet operators to block words and images the ruling Communist Party deems unacceptable. Google.cn has not yet lifted that filter. Internationally popular websites Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are entirely blocked in China, which uses a filtering "firewall" to block Internet users from overseas content banned by authorities. (Reporting by Chris Buckley and Michael Wei in Beijing, additional reporting by Alexei Oreskovic in San Francisco; Editing by Lucy Hornby, Ken Wills and Ron Popeski) Technology Media China Comments See All Comments (7) | Post Comment Mar 16, 2010 10:27pm EDT Clarity from China is like getting clarity from Obama and his plans for debt reduction IhateStoryburn Report As Abusive Mar 16, 2010 10:46pm EDT Clarity from Google is like getting clarity from Obama and his plans for debt reduction CNP Report As Abusive Mar 16, 2010 10:49pm EDT Why was Google.cn necessary at all? This was a question I bumped into in a website frequented by oversea Chinese. A good question indeed, because the usual Google is (yes, is!) accessible from China and one can search the web in Chinese simply via the usual Google. So the question becomes: 1. What difference could it make to the Chinese web users if Google.cn, a company located in China, shuts down? 2. If the answer to Q1 is “no difference,” then isn’t Google making a big deal out of nothing? 3. And again, why did Google need to set up a redundant search engine located in China at the outset? A Trojan horse, perhaps? theorem Report As Abusive Mar 16, 2010 11:36pm EDT Google is very stupid. Business is business,everyone should obey the local laws. The important thing is that google can’t win baidu forever. trance Report As Abusive Mar 17, 2010 12:38am EDT China is acting like they have all the power in the world. They better hope they do, because they are destroying their relationships with many countries around the world. xilus Report As Abusive Mar 17, 2010 2:04am EDT yes,baidu is our honor. Google is builded by Russian.Is it your honor too? But i guess you are not Russian,maybe just a white Rubbish. trance Report As Abusive Mar 17, 2010 2:47am EDT trance Larry Paige the co-founder of google is american and was born in america. The other co-founder Sergey Brin moved with his family from russia when he was 6 years old and he is also a citizen of the United States. In america anyone who lives here and is a citizen is an American. They can be from Asia, Europe, Africa, wherever once they become citizens they are part of our country. Countries like China have large heterogeneous societies, so it is hard for an outsider to understand how our country works. The google founders were educated here, raised here, and created their company here. So google is an american company. RickySB Report As Abusive See All Comments (7) Add a Comment More from Reuters China digs in heels on yuan as U.S. raises pressure BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Wednesday it "could not be any clearer" in its repeated commitment to a stable exchange rate after the U.S. Congress threatened to levy duties on some Chinese exports unless it revalues its currency. | Video Intel, global chip shares jump China in "great leap forward" for gas Arrow to soon respond on Shell, PetroChina offer: source World Bank tells China to tighten policy U.S. puts brakes on "virtual" border fence » More Top News Advertisers warn Google Google's ad partners in China want to know more about the Internet giant's plans in the country, saying they'll seek compensation if it shuts its Chinese portal. Full Article Schools in hacking case ask "why us?" Google sees big mobile ad growth Google Goldman's dilemma Goldman Sachs couldn't hand back its bank charter and shake off Fed policing even if it wanted to. 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