China is blocking most Google search queries

http://shanghaiist.com/2010/03/30/the_googlecn_googlecomhk_lockdown_h.php

by garply • 16 years ago

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garply2• 16 years ago

More specifically, all queries entered from the Google html web forms. I can still search from the search / url bar in Chrome. The block is indeed, as the article states, keyed off of the rfai parameter in the queries.

Also, Forbes picked up on the story quickly as well (http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/30/china-blocks-google-tech-ma...), but I found the info from The Shanghaiist more useful.

alexbosworth• 16 years ago

Amazon S3 has recently started to come under the block here, which is making Shanghaiist not work for me - their static CSS files are served direct from S3 buckets.

c1sc0• 16 years ago

This is the kind of thing worrying me more than a single search engine being shut out. Once infrastructure services start to suffer it becomes effectively impossible to do (internet) business in China without VPN.

I've been thinking about setting up a 'dashboard' website much like Google's services dashboard that goes beyond Google's services and includes access to websites essential to run a modern internet business.

Here's my list, please add to it:

  Google search
  Wordpress / Tumblr / Other blog services
  Twitter
  Facebook
  Google Appengine
  Amazon AWS / EC3 / Mturk / etc ...
  other cloud service providers?

garply2• 16 years ago

Even with a VPN, the Chinese environment is harmful because VPNs are slooow (relatively speaking).

ck2• 16 years ago

Is this a surprise? Who exactly is going to stop them?

They own half the world's debt and most of the USA's including the trillions borrowed to fund the two wars going on. They will just get a severe finger wagging from the state department.

What can anyone do to change this, we can't even support the people in Iran when they are actively fighting their government.

If half the American corporations left China, China would simply make clones of those companies or just seize their remaining assets and use them for themselves (like Russia does).

UmYeah• 16 years ago

Google is now saying that this is a technical glitch on their end. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230473910457515...

China is blocking most Google search queries

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