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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."

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  1. 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.