New chinese google site

Reading the NY Times today, it looks like Google have opened up a chinese web site, http://www.google.cn/, with a few limitations compared the normal google. From the article:

In an effort to cope with China's increasingly pervasive Internet controls, Google said Tuesday that it would introduce a search engine here this week that excludes e-mail messaging and the ability to create blogs.

Google officials said the new search engine, Google.cn, was created partly as a way to avoid potential legal conflicts with the Chinese government, which has become much more sophisticated at policing and monitoring material appearing on the Internet.

Looks like my internet surfing in Beijing is going to be a bit more curtailed than it normally is! Lots of people seem to be complaining about the type of things the chinese govt tries to censor on the web. Well, so long as online games like BF2 still work, then I should be ok! Hmm, wonder if you're playing BF2 and the chinese side are getting their ass kicked, does the game suddenly drop off, or the opposing team start getting serious lag time? Must try that out.....