https://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-06-04-n13.html

This is obviously pretty old, but as people have noted even this level of censorship didn't save Google in China.

In 2010 Google decided to stop censoring results in China.

>We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...