Google's China advertisers ask for compensation

Chinese advertising resellers that rely on Google's (GOOG.NYSE) search pages for revenue have written a letter demanding that the company disclose its plans to exit the China market and possibly pay them compensation, the Guardian reported. The letter was posted on the CCTV website. It bears 27 signatures, but a manager at Universal Internet Media in Suzhou said that a single firm added the names of all the rest. Others have said the letter is probably fake. The letter said that the companies were losing revenue and employees and therefore deserve compensation from Google. It appears that Google has already begun to relax or remove its censorship of content on the Google.cn website: Several newspapers have reported that web sites dealing with the Tiananmen protests of 1989, Tibet, Taiwan independence and Falun Gong can now be accessed through Google, although some sites remain blocked.

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