In a Thursday report on its Chinese web-censorship monitoring page, Internet search giant Google revealed that its unfiltered Chinese search site had been blocked yet again. While the Google report said that almost all of its services in China were either “fully” or “partially” blocked, the company later clarified that it was actually a “relatively small blockage.”

Talking about the disruption of services in China, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt said during an interview with The Wall Street Journal that though the Chinese authorities can “arbitrarily decide” the level of Google’s service in the country, the company is not aware whether the authorities were behind the blockage.

Noting that while some other countries also block certain websites, China is the only country that practices “active censorship,” Schmidt said that the recent disruption of service was the first one after the earlier-this-month renewal of Google’s license to continue its operations in the country.

The renewal of the license came after long-drawn tension between the Chinese government and Google, pertaining to state censorship as well as cyberattacks that Google believes supposedly originated in China.

Nonetheless, with China being the world’s biggest online market, boasting 420 million users, Schmidt said that he felt it was better to engage with the country, even if it implies that Google has to operate with certain restrictions.