The odds of Google keeping its Chinese search operation running are starting to seem quite small. The Chinese government has started advising Google's partners to prepare contingency plans, and one anonymous person who's supposed to be close to Google even said the company is 99.9 percent likely to shut things down. The "99.9 percent" comment, which we first mention ed over the weekend, comes courtesy of two Financial Times reporters. One of them, Kathrin Hille,