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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.
"More organs means more human." - Zim
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!
There's more Google news posted on the Google Weblog, if anyone's interested.
:-)
Plus, they don't seem to repeat stories
Meep meep
"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?
How about a "repeat story" icon? I recommend this cool doppelganger picture.
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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.