Google services including the Gmail email client have crashed and the search engine says that it is not a problem it can fix.

The Chinese are not saying anything either but there has been am 85 per cent drop in Google traffic from China. This started on 26 December, and grew over the ensuing days. Today it shows connections hovering down on the zero mark.

Google's transparency report takes some space to explain the current situation in China, and it says there that Google Sites, in general, have been inaccessible for some 1904 days.

Google Search was killed off in the run up to the anniversary of Tiananmen Square since May.

YouTube, banned for 2106 days, and Picasa, 1991 days, are also unavailable.