Google closes second mainland service

Google, which pulled its search engine from China in 2010, closed its shopping service in the nation yesterday, the second time in three months it has withdrawn a product from the world's largest internet market.

The company said in a statement the service "was not providing businesses with the level of impact we had hoped".

Google's shopping service competed against e-commerce giant Alibaba Group's etao.com and online portal NetEase's youdao.com.

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