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China Blocks Another Search Engine

Posted by timothy on from the one-cultural-revolution-was-enough dept.

Mr Natural writes "The BBC are reporting that the great firewall of china has blocked a second seach engine, AtlaVista.com, only a week after google was blocked. Here is the article."

5 of 29 comments (clear)

  1. alternate interfaces by eXtro · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There used to be a search tool called Archie for searching FTP sites. It was an interactive tool when I first started using it but later as the number of people on the net increased a lot of Archie sites resorted to email interfaces. Now email interfaces for search engines might become useful again, though for different reasons.

    It wouldn't be hard for somebody to create an email interface to google or altavista, though there would be significant bandwidth costs associated with it. A query could return an HTML email containing the 50 highest rated sites. In the event sites are blocked alternate commands could even return a cached copy of a particular site.

    An email interface would be more difficult to block since its easy to generate sites that only provide a transmit/store/forward interface to the real email server.

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  2. Re:The only way to get people to use AltaVista by GuyMannDude · · Score: 3, Funny

    I, like many "EXTREME" searchers, ...

    What the hell is an extreme searcher? Do you quick look up something on your laptop just before jumping out of an airplane? Or maybe you do a quick search after performing a knarly skateboard stunt?

    Totally rad, Dude!

    GMD

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  3. China: The Evil Empire by GuyMannDude · · Score: 3, Funny

    The more they tighten their grip, the more web sites will slip through their fingers.

    GMD

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  4. use google by email instead by YaRness · · Score: 3, Informative

    Seen here, or just try it yourself

  5. Sell-out by jacoberrol · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yahoo is one of the 130 major web portals that recently signed a voluntary pledge not to post information that would jeopardise state security and disrupt social stability in China.

    Ahem. Bullshit. This makes Yahoo sound like a hero. It should be re-worded as: Yahoo capitulates to Chinese government in order to retain 90 million potential eye-balls.

    This is why I trust Google's results over Yahoo's. Google takes the moral high-ground and refuses to censor the Internet. I don't have to worry that my search results will be skewed by somebody's agenda.