What Actually Happened in Last Thursday on Foreign Search Engines?

Last Thursday night(Beijing Time), three main foreign search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo and MSN Live.com) all encountered problems of being redirected to Baidu. There were tons of the reports on this issue already, either from highly-influential blogs as Techcrunch and Search Engine Land, or from main stream media as AFP.
The speculation to its reasons [...]

China IDC to Shut Down BBSs and Blogs

Since the big meeting is approaching, the China’s Internet regulators launched campaigns against sensitive content, which may force thousands of websites in China to shut down, at least for several months.
Several weeks ago, two IDCs in Luoyang and Shantou were shut down completely by regulators respectively, all hosted server were disconnected from network, [...]

News Roundup: Zhuaxia, Netease and Real Name Blogging

Zhuaxia promote its cartoon subscription widgets: Maybe the standard orange feed icon is too geeky to be understand now, and traditional subscription widget as this one are not attractive to readers. Then Zhuaxia, the most popular Chinese rss reader, decided to promote its cartoon subscription widgets, with the intention to attract more users to add [...]

Wikipedia Unblocked, But Gmail…May Have Problem

The Chinese Wikipedia has been fully unblocked since Nov. 9th afternoon. About one year ago, Chinese Wikipedia was blocked by GFW in 2005 October. In the year, the growth of number of articles in Chinese Wikipedia has slowed down significantly, and was surpassed by Russian version.
Previously in last month, English and other language Wikipedia [...]

Technorati Blocked Again in China

Several days after Technorati was back in China, we cannot access it again for about three days in China.
And someone found, I also tested it by myself, that we can not search “.technorati.com” in Google. By doing so in either Google.com or Google.cn, we will not be able to access Google for a while [...]

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