Google’s (GOOG.NASDAQ) new question-and-answer page was unavailable from mainland China on Tuesday, less than a month after the search engine’s internet license was renewed amid a stand-off with Beijing over online censorship, AP reported. The page, http://www.google.com.hk/wenda, was launched two weeks ago and allows Chinese web users to leave questions for others to answer. Most of the posts have been about consumer products and housing prices. A Google Inc. spokeswoman said the company has not found any technical problems with the Hong Kong-based service. Google’s future in China has been shaky since the company announced in January it would no longer comply with Beijing’s web censorship rules. The question-and-answer service was launched after Google scaled back its relationship with Chinese internet site operator Tianya, which had threatened to take over Google’s China-based question-and-answer service when the American firm stopped censoring search results.
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