SAN FRANCISCO ? Google Inc. said several of its online services have been blocked in China.
Traffic to Google?s services in China dropped sharply beginning Friday evening there, according to an online ?Transparency Report? website operated by Google, which provides updates about access to its services in different parts of the world.
Among the sites affected were Google?s search engine and its Gmail web email product.
The disruptions come as China?s government kicked off the 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress this week to appoint a new generation of leaders. The country maintains media regulations that let it block websites that it deems out of compliance with those rules.
A Google spokeswoman said the company did not know why the disruption was happening. Google said in a statement that it had ?checked and there?s nothing wrong on our end.?
Ma Yuanchun, a spokeswoman for the Chinese consulate in New York, said she wasn?t informed on the matter and referred all queries to the relevant government authorities in Beijing. Calls and an e-mail sent after normal office hours to Hong Lei, a spokesman at the Chinese foreign ministry in Beijing, weren?t immediately answered.
Google?s YouTube video service has been inaccessible in China since 2009, while access to other services in China are blocked sporadically.
In 2010 Google relocated its Chinese search engine to Hong Kong after a spat with authorities over censorship and cyber-attacks that Google said originated in China. Hong Kong isn?t subject to Web restrictions imposed in mainland China.
Google rose 1.6% to US$662.69 at 1:33 p.m. in New York. The shares are up about 1% this year through yesterday.
? Thomson Reuters 2012, with files from Bloomberg
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