Googles license to operate in China expires today.

Google is going to stop sending users in China to its uncensored Hong Kong site in an effort to please Beijing. The Internet giants (google china) operating license in China expires this week, the license renewal application is due on Wednesday. “Google is trying to show a little accommodation,” said James Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “They have to show they are at least willing to engage with the Chinese and make them happy.”The company appears to have made the compromise out of concern that Beijing is preparing to entirely shut down (google china) google.cn, which could confuse users in China. Because users have grown accustomed to visiting google.cn, that could hurt Google’s traffic in China, the world’s largest Internet market.

China’s foreign ministry declined to comment on Tuesday. Google has competitive reasons for renewing its license in China and securing a future for itself there. Baidu, China’s leading search engine, will start hiring software engineers directly from the United States next month, as it seeks to expand its technological capabilities and raise its global profile, Reuters reported Tuesday. Baidu is China's equivalent to Google china.

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