clipped from: www.pcworld.com China has ordered Google to suspend its foreign Web site search service after warning that the company's filtering of pornography was too weak, state media said Friday.
Google was also ordered to revamp its service immediately and remove all links to pornographic and "vulgar" material, the official Xinhua news agency said.
The Google function that suggests search keywords as users type stopped working on google.cn during the day on Friday, though it still worked in the country on google.com. Google was also ordered to remove that ability, the report said.
A government-backed Internet watchdog also condemned Google for "disseminating pornography and vulgar information" from abroad on Thursday.
Xinhua did not explain the demand to end search services for foreign Web sites.
A Google spokeswoman confirmed the company had met with Chinese officials Thursday to discuss problems with its China search service.