NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Google's search engine was down in China on Tuesday -- a glitch the company initially said was due to its own technical tweaks, but now claims was caused by the Chinese government's Internet filtering.
"Having looked into this issue in more detail, it's clear we actually added this parameter a week ago," Google spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said late Tuesday in an e-mailed statement, referring to a change Google made to its search engine coding. "So whatever happened today to block Google.com.hk must have been as a result of a change in the 'great firewall.'"
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