Google shuts China music download service

Shanghai : China | Sep 21, 2012 at 12:38 AM PDT

Source: The Economic Times

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Google Inc said on Friday it will shut its once-popular China music download service next month, in a sign of how far the fortunes of the world's biggest search engine have fallen in China. Launched in 2009 with a local partner, the Google Music Search was meant to be a legal music search competitor to Baidu... FULL ARTICLE AT The Economic Times

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