One of Google’s corporate blogs quietly announced on Thursday that the company has brought on a new tool to its search page to help users sidestep China censors --- with the software twist alerting Google’s mainland China users when they type in search terms which trigger an "interruption" of service to the search engine.

According to the Google blog post, the addition of the new tool will essentially improve the search experience for users in mainland China, who can presently have their connections to Google severed by the authorities, without explanation, when they attempt to open a Web page which was found using a censored search term.

With Google having apparently analyzed that the "interruptions" witnessed by mainland China users are closely correlated with specific search terms, the new tool works in such a way that whenever a user types in one of the words which have been identified a ‘problematic’ by Google engineers, a drop-down menu highlighted in yellow will appear below the search box.

The message which is put across to the users reads thus: "We've observed that search for [X] in mainland China may temporarily break your connection to Google. This interruption is outside of Google's control."

Even though the blog post made no mention whatsoever of the words "censored" and "censorship," the new software twist by Google seemingly comes in the wake of the fact that users in mainland China have been complaining since long that Google search is inconsistent and unreliable.