Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government..., according to...GreatFire.org...According to GreatFire.org Google has also deleted a help article which explained how to use the feature — which it says indicates that Google is self-censoring in this instance, rather than being blocked by the government...Google has...confirmed...that it has removed the notification feature. The company said it did not have a statement at this time...By preemptively flagging banned words the hope was the notification feature gave users a chance to search for an alternative terms...However, since the notification feature was implemented, access to Google’s search engine in China has been blocked more often than usua...meaning even fewer users were able to use Google search...