Young Chinese professionals working in Beijing's main IT hub expressed a mixture of regret, anger and surprise on Tuesday at Google's move to shut its mainland Chinese website and reroute searches to Hong Kong. The government lost little time in warning Google that its rejection of self-censorship has incensed the ruling Communist Party, wary of ceding any ground on freedoms for China's 384 million Internet users. But for many educated, and especially young, Chinese, Google has been a well-loved website, even if homegrown rival Baidu Inc dominates the overall domestic market. And many fear Google's move on its search engine could affect its other offerings, from email to online books.
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