The site where Google summarizes its services in China, Mainland China service availability, shows that mobile services have been partially blocked since Sunday 28 March.
Google spokespeople have refused to elaborate on this to the American press.
The availability of the Google Mobile is dependent on the telecom operators China Mobile and China Unicom. They have not commented on the matter. In contrast to Google's regular search service Google.cn, is the mobile version is not moved to Hong Kong.
Observers of the Chinese blogosphere says, according to the Financial Times and China Digital Times that the country has received yet another "mythical Internet-animals" in addition to the ten Baudi-gods who now haunts the ridicule of the Chinese censors.
The new animal called "gu ge". It actually means "ancient pigeon". At the same time both the Chinese voters' way to say "Google", and the officially registered name of Google's search service in China.
It tells stories about how the dove, an "invisible search bird", is now about to become extinct in China and thus attracts more friendly machine.
A Chinese newspaper, Chongqing Evening News, ventured to render one of these stories, despite orders from the Chinese government that everything that comes to Google's services in China will be passed in peace.
The newspaper will be among those taking another of the government's media directives seriously, as it assumes that newspapers have to be commercially viable. It has therefore concentrated on making himself marketable, and been "tabloid".
Other stories about the "gu ge" is that the bird, according to an old American Indian legend, not to do harm, and consequently are afraid of "river crabs". When they encounter a river crabs, they can, as opposed to "grass camp horses", not survival. Therefore prefer the south.
"Grass camp horse" - "cao nine na" - is it as opposed to "river crab" or "Hexi. In a different pronunciation, and written with other characters, meaning "cao nine na" something like 'pul mother ", while a similar time variation of the" Hexi "is" harmony "and is responsible for censorship, because censorship purposes, according to government , is to create harmony.
At ancient pigeon "gu ge" of guardians his demise by pulling the south (to Hong Kong), while grass horse camp "cao nine na" remain to fight the river crab "Hexi", thus telling a familiar story of Chinese web users.
The heroic grass camp horse, actually a kind of alpaca, has figured in several popular videos on Youtube, which helps to explain why this channel blocked in China. A "documentary" about the animal's life had 1.58 million hits. One cartoon had 1.65 million hits, and a video song to honor the animal received 1.4 million hits.
