Back to normal
Redirect this!
I seem to be a little behind on the news from Cyberia. I've just found out that Nanny was redirecting Google, Yahoo! and live.com searches to Baidu a few days ago. This seem to have been the petulant response to a certain sovereign nation awarding a medal to some old homeless guy from a place in Asia. Did Nanny think that the Chinese Cyberians were all dashing off to one of the foreign search engines to find out more about this event? Or was Nanny merely trying to annoy the expats again since they're more likely to be affected by such puerile doings than the Chinese themselves.
Anyway, I've just checked Google blog search and have found that it's back to normal. If you search for "green bamboo", guess which two blogs are top of the list. ^_^
Appendix A
Did the redirecting actually only affecting the .cn versions of the search engines or did it affect them across the board?
Appendix B
Hmmm. That was interesting. When I first tried to post this, I got told there was a problem. I replaced Тибэт with "a place in Asia" and posted it without a problem. Of course, the first time round, I wasn't using Cyrillic letters. I expect that directly mentioning the dependently independent nation of Ταίwαν (all right, the Ρεπύβλικ of Чина) would trigger the same problem.
I seem to be a little behind on the news from Cyberia. I've just found out that Nanny was redirecting Google, Yahoo! and live.com searches to Baidu a few days ago. This seem to have been the petulant response to a certain sovereign nation awarding a medal to some old homeless guy from a place in Asia. Did Nanny think that the Chinese Cyberians were all dashing off to one of the foreign search engines to find out more about this event? Or was Nanny merely trying to annoy the expats again since they're more likely to be affected by such puerile doings than the Chinese themselves.
Anyway, I've just checked Google blog search and have found that it's back to normal. If you search for "green bamboo", guess which two blogs are top of the list. ^_^
Appendix A
Did the redirecting actually only affecting the .cn versions of the search engines or did it affect them across the board?
Appendix B
Hmmm. That was interesting. When I first tried to post this, I got told there was a problem. I replaced Тибэт with "a place in Asia" and posted it without a problem. Of course, the first time round, I wasn't using Cyrillic letters. I expect that directly mentioning the dependently independent nation of Ταίwαν (all right, the Ρεπύβλικ of Чина) would trigger the same problem.
Comments