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Google.com Blocked in China
http://www.StockMarketFunding.com "Google.com Blocked in China" Google.com is currently blocked in China, according to watchdog group GreatFire.org. "It #39;s the first time since we started tracking online censorship in China in February last year that this has happened," the group said in a Friday blog post. "The subdomains http://www.google.com, mail.google.com, google-analytics.com, docs.google.com, drive.google.com, maps.google.com, play.google.com and perhaps many more are all currently DNS poisoned in China." Looking at Google #39;s online transparency report, which monitors the accessibility of its services around the world, traffic to Google products has dropped off in China in the last few hours. "We #39;ve checked and there #39;s nothing wrong on our end," a Google spokeswoman said when asked about the blockade. According to GreatFire.org, anyone in China trying to access Google services are redirected to an IP address in Korea that doesn #39;t serve any website at all. "This means that none of these websites, including Google Search, currently work in China, unless you have a VPN or other cirumvention tool," the blog said. At this point, it does not appear that international versions of Google - like Google.co.uk - have been disrupted in China. Google is the second most popular search engine in China behind Baidu and is among the top five most used websites in China on a daily basis, according to Alexa stats. GreatFire.org suggested, however, that the blockade could backfire on Chinese ...From:StockMarketFundingViews:28 4ratingsTime:06:08More inNews Politics

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