SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc delighted free-speech advocates as it threatened to pull out of China over censorship and cyber attacks, but the move upends one of the company's most important growth initiatives.
Analysts said Google's decision is tantamount to exiting the world's largest Internet market, with more than 360 million users, since it is highly unlikely the Chinese government would allow Google to operate an unfiltered search engine.
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