Goolge Inc., owner of the world's most popular Internet search engine, threatens Tuesday that it is considering to censor its search engine in China and may exit the country altogether following what the company said was a series of cyber-attacks on its infrastructure and users, according to a New York Times report Tuesday.

Google was no longer willing to censor results on its Chinese-language search engine and the company would discuss with Chinese authorities whether it could operate an uncensored search engine in China, according to David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer.

"Over the next few weeks, we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all," the Mountain View, California-based company, said.

"We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China," the company added.

According to Drummond, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company was one of several large companies that were targeted by a "highly sophisticated" attack on its