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China Redirecting Google (and others) To Baidu

         

WiseWebDude

7:00 pm on Oct 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

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[euro2day.gr...] hope it's ok to post the link, but I don't think Google is going to like to hear this at all...plus they are doing it to Yahoo and MSN? Now, this is interesting!

tedster

8:13 pm on Oct 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Google Blogoscoped reports that apparently any domain with the word "search" in it is being redirected:

Even some more exotic pages, like www.search.ibm.com.cn, were suffering from this hijacking.

[blogoscoped.com...]

WiseWebDude

8:22 pm on Oct 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Yea, now isn't this something else. Talk about a HUGE market that ALL of the search engines are losing right now? Ouch! Think this will last long or they just doing it as a temper tantrum and will soon pass?

cmarshall

9:02 pm on Oct 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

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The Register now has the story [theregister.co.uk] (they tend to lag a bit).

tedster

6:07 am on Oct 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Since this is a LOT bigger than Google alone, let's continue the discussion in our Asia Pacific forum:

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