Google Search Broken in China March 30, 2010
After just discussing the Google/China spat on our last podcast, this story emerged today.
According to several media stories, Google search results were unavailable on their Chinese website as of today. Apparently, users could access the Google search page, but were unable to yield results when attempting to search. This news comes just a week after Google began redirecting their http://google.cn site to their Hong Kong servers at http://google.hk where censorship restrictions are more lax.
Some reports were that China had begun blocking the GOOG through the Great Firewall. However, it now appears that an internalized error was the cause of the problem. Somehow an errant text string was inserting itself into the URL of search result pages and caused the search engine to display an error.
For the most current info on the effects of the larger dispute between Google and China dispute, Google has a website which is tracking the status of their online services in mainland China: http://www.google.com/prc/report.html
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