Google is having 72.2% market share at United States and the distant second market share holder yahoo is having only 14.8% market share but in China Google is only having 43% market share and is not the market leader as Baidu is containing 56% of the market share.  The stat shows that Google is still in search of success in China. From the time Google is operating at China there were controversies about them.

"It's perfectly reasonable to do something different, to say, 'Look, we're going to stand by the principle against censorship and we won't actually operate there.' That's an alternate path," [1] news at San Francisco Chronicle’s website at Tuesday, June 6, 2006 published these words of Sergey Brin the co-founder of Google.  This clearly shows Google had the intention to shut down its operation from the beginning. Now as they’ve failed to be the market leader and make enough money as they’ve expected, they are trying to create issues.

At 2007 Google's Pinyin IME, found as a copycat application of Sohu.com a Chinese company. Sohu dictionary contained the names of several Sohu employees and those have been found in the dictionary used with Google's Pinyin IME. [2]

There are also some other western giant internet companies failed in Chinese market. Ebay and Yahoo have also arrived China with high expectations but yet to find any success. Google in contrast with some is much successful to have 43% of market share.

But nothing can make a company ignore the rules and regulations of the country where they are operating at. How big the corporation is, it has to follow and obey the laws of the government and the country. If Google think that they cannot comply with the Chinese laws and regulations, they can shutdown their operation. Their announcement of shutting down is not a threat, because the market is not depended on Google rather Google is a part of the market. If the company leaves the market the netizens won’t feel any void.

The western media and people should remember that the country China has its own right to decide and move on with their own rules, regulations and policies. The western media shouldn’t try to intervene in the process and there idea of “Google has sent China a critical message”[3] or “can Google beat china”[4] only exhibits their mind setup to attack China. Chinese media should reply them correctly that “The internet search giant is nothing but a company and they either have to comply with government regulations or pack up”.  They have no right to try to play a ball game with a Government and its policy.