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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. Communication is the key by rizzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all, if there was communication, then taco wouldn't post stories that timothy already had.

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  2. Repeat? by Hitokage_Nishino · · Score: 4, Funny

    Enough with the repeats... do you really think that we don't have the memorHEY cool google's not blocked in china anymore!

  3. ObNixon by Rupert · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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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  4. Re:By My Count... by micromoog · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about a "repeat story" icon? I recommend this cool doppelganger picture.

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

    .
    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.