Sorry, but loosing google in china may improve the quality of the research if that data is true. What I say is that google, or google scholar is not the best way to search for published works (e.g. there are few and limited options to do search and order results, there is no information of what is and what is not indexed, etc.). Ok, it is not all bad. It is free. Thinking twice this would mean that Chinese researchers will use another search mechanism that may be much more adequate for the purpose.

Today anyone can start doing his programs and worse.. anyone is calling himself a developer. Maybe is the time to recognize the people with knowledge about software engineering.