[PConline InformationOn January 16, it was reported that after an eight-year absence, Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, will restart its map service business in China.
The company has built a special version of its Google Maps website for China, launching a mapping app for iPhone users in China.
However, users who try to use the navigation function in the special edition of Google Maps China will be automatically redirected to the Autonavi Maps app. Autonavi Maps is owned by Alibaba.
Previously, Google participated in an investment in Chushou, a Chinese live-streaming mobile gaming platform, earlier this month, and the company is looking to enter the Chinese market.
The company pulled most of its services out of China in 2010 after refusing to accept regulators’ oversight of what its search engine searches for, and since then Google’s mapping business has lost market share in the Chinese market.