Google leaving China due to "government stuff" is a simple way for them to ease out of a market where they are losing to Baidu.<p>according to:   <a href="http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/12/28/google-v-baidu-which-company-will-win-china/" rel="nofollow">http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/12/28/googl...</a><p><i>Baidu's market share for search in China was about 77% in the third quarter, up from 75.6% in the second quarter. Google (GOOG), she says, lost share in China, dropping to 17% in the third quarter, from about 19% in the second quarter.</i>