Summary Website only contains a letter from Larry Page and link to Google's existing investor relations page
BEIJING (AFP) - Tech geeks in China looking to understand Google s newly unveiled corporate structure are out of luck: the website of the new parent company, dubbed Alphabet, was blocked less than 24 hours after going live.
Google unveiled a surprise corporate overhaul Tuesday forming Alphabet, a holding company that will include Internet search and a handful of independent companies, such as the research arm X Lab, investment unit Google Ventures and health and science operations.
So far the website only contains a letter from Google co-founder Larry Page and a link to Google s existing investor relations page.
But the website for Alphabet, www.abc.xyz, is already blocked in China, which operates the world s most extensive and sophisticated Internet censorship system, known as the "Great Firewall".
Despite the block, the announcement of Google s restructuring was widely reported in Chinese official media, including the People s Daily, the official Communist Party mouthpiece.
The Paper, a government-run news website, even named the parent companies new website address in its report, saying the unorthodox mix of letters "broke with convention".
The California-based tech firm withdrew from China in 2010 over censorship issues, and the two have continued to have a turbulent relationship, with Beijing moving last year to fully block Google s hugely popular Gmail service.
