Google's Alphabet website blocked in China on first day of launch

August 11, 2015 19:26

Technology geeks in China hoping to understand Google's newly unveiled corporate structure are fresh out of luck as the website of the new parent company, dubbed Alphabet, was blocked less than 24 hours after going live.

Google unveiled a surprise corporate overhaul on Tuesday by announcing the formation of Alphabet, a holding company that will include Internet search and a handful of independent companies, such as the research arm X Lab, investment unit Google Ventures and health and science operations.

So far, the website only contains a letter from Google co-founder Larry Page and a link to Google's existing investor relations page. But the website for Alphabet, www.abc.xyz, is already blocked in China, which operates the world's most extensive and sophisticated Internet censorship system, known as the "Great Firewall".

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