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Google Returns to China

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the cracks-in-the-great-firewall dept.

knownsense writes "Wired News is reporting that Google's mysterious Chinese block is now off and users in China can now get to the search engine. Google was being redirected for a while within China and users within China were being redirected to no-name "China friendly" search engines."

3 of 91 comments (clear)

  1. Chinese could dominate Google by Stephen+R+Hall · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As I understand it, one of the ways to get a higher rating with Google is to have lots of links to your site. If the Chinese population get busy producing their own websites, the amount of cross-linkage they could do would ensure their entries coming at the top of every search. Eventually, the Chinese government wouldn't have to worry about their people finding western sites, because they'll be so far down the list that the users will get bored of going through them.

  2. SortOf MaybeAlmost NOT COMPLETELY by oldstrat · · Score: 4, Interesting

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    According to this news story at New Scientist

    Entering certain keywords into google is knocking out all internet activity for 5 minutes for chinese users.

    I wonder if google were using https, if it would happen. Looks like the state is 'inspecting' for 'dangerous' thoughts.

  3. Internet Filtering in China by timlee · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In case you're interested, I found this a few days ago. Since there is no definitive list of banned sites in China, our friends at Harvard Law have decided to come up with a way you can test to see if your website (or any other for that matter) is blocked in China.