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Google Returns to China
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."
After all, if there was communication, then taco wouldn't post stories that timothy already had.
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When is China going to get its own topical icon?
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.
Isn't this a repeat of this story?
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/12/1
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
China's ban on Google Web search engine lifted
Chinese government backs down on Google
China ends Google block
China lifts Google restrictions
Wall comes down around Google in China
Google back online in China
...this might be 4.2% of the stories
Anyway, I assume they lifted the ban just until they have had time to develop the system so that it is a bit harder to go around it. We might see the blockings again within a few weeks.
Enough with the repeats... do you really think that we don't have the memorHEY cool google's not blocked in china anymore!
Hackers will need to request access to discussion forums
If you were truely a hacker, couldn't you just hack your way into the system and post messages without proper authorization?
Live web cams
There's more Google news posted on the Google Weblog, if anyone's interested.
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Plus, they don't seem to repeat stories
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Well, that's nice, but.. This still says it's not accessible. So, which is it, folks?
Starting testing...
Stage one testing complete.
Stage two testing complete.
Testing complete for http://www.google.com. Result:
Reported as accessible in China
"Only Google could go to China"
Since most of Slashdot is under 28 I suspect I'm going to be modded down as offtopic. Hopefully the three of you who are over thirty will see this post before it hits -1 so hard it bounces.
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I can just imagine a bureaucrat giggling (or laughing manically) while pushing a big red button labeled"Google access" repeatedly. "This should screw
Maybe it's a campaign to drive geeks crazy?
I don't see what's so big about this -- it seems that for one reason or another, china's web censoring/blocking/filtering programs have a bug in it (like most web censoring/blocking/filtering programs) that lets people get in to Google if they do it a certain way. I don't think that it means that China is going to make a general change in their policy to allow people to visit Google... they'll probably just fix up whatever bug is letting people get to Google and then we'll be right back where we started.
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What you mean Socalists?
You would think that the internet was service the entire world is paying for like... Oh my God, he's right.
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You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
CNN's article has a more comprehensive version of the AP report:
CNN Article
Maybe the wind changed direction...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
maybe china is now blocking taco's ability to read /.
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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.
Really! China wasn't trying to crush free speech, nor were they feeling the worlds glare upon their backs after blocking google... No, there's a perfectly rational explanation for the humanitarian people's republic... Um.. Uh... Maintanance, right? No? Err... Common, guys, help me out here... One thing I always get a kcik out of its the people who defend China... It brightens my day considerably to know their are still gullible, brainwashed people out there ^__^
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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.