[(Title)]Google might return to China.

 reported Wednesday that Google plans to launch a search app in China that would block sensitive websites and search terms to comply with Chinese government censorship.

据周三报道，谷歌计划在中国推出一款搜索应用，阻止敏感网站和搜索条款，以符合中国政府的审查标准。

China has hundreds of millions of internet users and a thriving online shopping market, making it impossible for US tech companies to ignore.

中国拥有数亿互联网用户和蓬勃发展的网上购物市场，让美国科技公司无法忽视。

Andy Tian, a tech executive who formerly led mobile strategy and partnerships for Google in China, said the Chinese tech companies that currently dominate search can't compete with Google's product.

曾担任谷歌在中国的移动战略和合作伙伴关系的技术主管安迪·田表示，目前主导搜索的中国科技公司无法与谷歌的产品竞争。

"There's a huge void, Google can fill that void," said Tian, who is now CEO of Asia Innovations.

“中国互联网有一个巨大的空白，谷歌可以弥补这一空白，”现任亚洲创新首席执行官的田说。

Asked about The Intercept report, Google said in a statement that "we don't comment on speculation about future plans."

当被问及Intercontrol的报告时，谷歌在一份声明中说：“我们不评论对未来计划的猜测。

Like many other US internet platforms, Google's most popular products — search, YouTube, Gmail — have been banned in China for years, blacked out by a vast government censorship apparatus known as the Great Firewall.

与许多其他美国互联网平台一样，谷歌最受欢迎的产品——YouTube，Gmail——在中国被禁止多年，被一个名为“防火墙”的巨大政府审查机构所掩盖。

But that wasn't always the case.

但并非总是如此。

"While removing search results is inconsistent with Google's mission, providing no information (or a heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information) is more inconsistent with our mission," Google said at the time.

“虽然删除搜索结果与Google的使命不一致，但不提供任何信息与我们的使命更不一致，严重降低用户体验。

While the search engine was censored, it also flagged to users when information was removed from results. That gave Chinese internet users an idea of what they were not allowed to see.

虽然搜索引擎受到审查，但当从结果中删除信息时，它也会向用户标记这一点。这可使中国网民了解到他们不允许看到的东西。

"We reminded users in China every single day that they are looking at filtered results," said Tian, who worked at Google when the search engine launched.

“我们每天都提醒中国的用户，他们看得是过滤过的结果。”