As Google announces its withdrawl from the Chinese market, this post highlights some of the key events in Google's ten year history in the country. 2000 â€" A Chinese language version of Google.com is launched â€" and over the next few years is often blocked or at least temporarily unavailable. It does not have widespread usage in the country. January 2006 â€" Google releases a new site in China - Google.cn - that will block content prohibited by the government,