World search leader Google’s services are not available in all parts of world. Currently Google has blocked it’s services in Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan. This is not the first time when Google has blocked it’s services in some countries last year also they have blocked Google Earth services in Sudan.

According to a Google spokesperson,

In order for the company to abide by U.S. export controls and economic sanctions, we are unable to permit the download of Google Chrome in Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan.

Jessica Dheere points out something even more interesting than the blocking of Google’s services

Another curious aspect of this is that though Google blocks Syrians and Iranians from accessing these programs, it still serves them ads. According to Sadeq, Google AdWords ads appear on websites and blogs in Syria just as they do elsewhere. Sadeq double-checked that this was the case and that clicking through didn’t pose any problems. "Moreover," he said, "I don’t think there is a problem in setting up an [AdSense] account for one’s blog/website (I tried it once in my blog)."

How did he set up the AdSense account? When asked what country he was from, he simply chose Lebanon because Syria wasn’t an option. The account was easily set up that way.

According to US regulations Google Adsense ads can be shown in these countries but but marketing services would be prohibited. But for doing this Google has just removed the name of countries of the drop down list but the users from these countries are able to make Google accounts and using Google services. I think there is some thing wrong in the process of blocking services from these countries because users from these blocked countries are using proxy websites for accessing Google services.

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