Google.cn in China is now G.cn!

 Google china, while might still be leaving, is now advertising offline and online for its new web address G.cn

go on, just try this google new chinese url by clicking here g.cn

It's actually just a redirection 301 to this address http://www.google.cn/webhp?source=g_cn

As you can see, there is a source tag at the end of the address so that the google guys eventually know how many people are using g.cn and how many are still using google.cn, that let's them see two things :

1) If their advertising is efficient, to make people aware of g.cn

2) If the new address is used, because people might still type google.cn thanks to old habits.

Google, don't do Evil

What I also noticed is that they advertise on... their homepage. Wasn't that the sacred page of google, free of advertising, sometimes even free of everything.

And they do it in a very suprising way. Offline, they use buses, which is totally ok. but Online, They use a kind of subliminal advertising: when you reach their homepage, you see a big G.cn for less than half a second! People around me had it and didn't even notice it, because it disappears in the blink of an eye.

What the hell is going on at google china?

ps: thanks to cedric from pharos education for the picture. And Guys, if you have a camera and picture something interesting, feel free contacting me!

pps: those of you who tried g.com, well, it doesn't work, i tried it too ;o)