With this past weekend for Internet search giant Google marking disruptions to the company's Web-search as well as email services in China, uncertainty linked to the Chinese government's attempts to control information flow into the country has come to the fore yet again.

On late Friday, most of Google's popular online services - including the Google search engine, Gmail, and Google's Play Store for mobile apps - became inaccessible to the users in China. The outage of Google's services in China, due to governmental reasons, evidently points to the business risks in the country.

Disclosing the Google outage in China were apparently not linked to any glitch in the company's equipment, Google said that, going by the company's statistics, traffic from China witnessed a sharp drop over the weekend because of the disruptions.

With the source of the disruptions still to be ascertained, the Google services in China resumes to a large extent on Saturday. However, users in a few parts of the country said that the services remained erratic and unreliable over the weekend.

Noting that the Google outage in China is an indication of China's Internet censorship efforts, which the country has intensified owing to the 18th Party Congress for electing new top party leaders, consulting firm Wolf Group Asia's founder David Wolf said: "There appears to be a throttling under way of Web access" in the country.