SubscribeTechnorati’s China Problem
Technorati and China is the hot words today, just several days after the New York Time’s article about Google’s China problem, we just have another case for the censorship in China, and I also got emails to ask me to confirm the rumor.
Well, what I can confirm is that we cannot access Technorati in China for several days already. But is it because Technorati is blocked intendedly or just a temporary problem, I cannot tell, and it seems nobody can, because we just don’t have any channel to confirm it. What we can do is just to guess.
Since Technorati is a search engine, it is understandable for it to be blocked by Great Firewall for the same reason that Google is censored in China. But unlike several year ago when Google is fully blocked in China, great firewall is significantly enhanced during the period. Nowadays, we can access Google.com in China, but if you try to search some filtered keywords, Google will be unavailable temporarily, so do other search engines as icerocket.
If GFW has the capability of blocking search engines by keywords, why they will want to block a blog search engine that only a very small proportation of Chinese internet users are aware of and use. Well, GFW can block a site for many reasons which we cannot predict. As I said, maybe we can only guess and wait for it to come back soon.
Update: Technorati has come back already.
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I confirm that Technorati is blocked here. I’ve been trying to access the site for one week already.