In the first quarter of this year, Google had 16.6 percent share of China's search market for ad revenue, according to Beijing-based research firm Analysys International. Internet data analytics site CNZZ.com, however, shows that Google's user share in the country is at 6 percent.
Chinese search engine Baidu currently dominates the country's search market, with about an 80 percent share in both the online search ad segment and for users.
Besides Google search, YouTube was blocked by China in 2009. Last year, Google also reported that the Chinese government was partially blocking its Gmail service. Other services such as Google Plus and Google Drive have been immediately blocked in the country soon after they were launched.
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