goOgLe sHanGhaiED!
 

well, not sure if this really qualifies as a 'quality' image or not - just thought it was pretty interesting. as some of you probably know google.com has been blocked by the Great Firewall of China for several days now.

what you probably don't know is that as of yesterday China has hijacked google's DNS out of China. if i type in google.com (i live in shanghai) i am taken to some random search engine that is propogated here.

yesterday it was a site from Peking University, and today it is some clowns called eNet.com.cn

here is the screen shot.

i like the copyright info at bottom.

Can you get to it via a proxy somewhere?

accessing google.
 

yes and no.

if i need to google search right now i go through http://canoe.ca which has a google function that provides me with results. a friend set up a proxy server for me, but since i already need a proxy just to get out of my LAN it isn't useful to me. plus trying to configure things on my chinese language IE is a pain in the ass.

if anyone has the know-how and the want to set up some sort of a proxy where i type the url into a dialogue box and it is served up in a frame that would be wonderful.

in the meantime i am stuck here behind the great firewall of china.

I had heard that some Chinese folk were using the joke site "Elgoog" to serve as a kind of proxy. The hole may have been plugged by now.

http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/ is a joke site; you ask someone if they've tried the Google mirror site, and point them to it....it's a joke on the work "mirror", of course.

But today they have a plea at the bottom of the page, with a Paypal donation link: "Hosting a Google mirror for 1.3 billion Chinese people isn't cheap. Please help us out with our bandwidth costs."

Great Firewall of China ... that's great!
 

As mentioned in another thread:

From outside the Great Firewall of China, you can test what's blocked and what's not here.

elgoog kinda silly
 

well elgoog isn't blocked, but it is kind of silly. and either i am an idiot (possible) or else it really isn't linking to google's actual database because my searches aren't turning anything up (spelled forward and backwards).

oh well.

incidently google.com in china now points to cnnavigate.com. seems like they are changing where it is pointing every few hours.

wacky.

hahahaha...

$28.98 later, and google.cn is all yours, snagglefish... ....

of course... the great firewall of china is likely to block a capitalist credit card transaction like that, too...


hahahaha..

wow I suck at posting images.. .. ;(


oh well.. ... SORRY to everyone on dialup.. ... ;D



-nd

registering google.cn
 

well i would register the damn thing if i could *find* a site that does .cn registrations. incidently, google.com.cn is taken.


*s

No can do: http://www.cnnic.net.cn/e-domain.shtml ;)

good thought
 

yeah - i think *technically* i should be able to register a .cn top level domain (being that i am a resident here, or a good friend is anyways ;), but i suspect that registering the top-level domain is a pain in the ass. i remember when i tried to register a .ca they wanted all sorts of proof of ownership of trademark and whatnot.

oh well.

maybe it will have to be elgoog.com.cn

;)

Snagglefish, what you need is a unix shell account somewhere outside the firewall. Then you can use lynx to search google yourself.

Or what about an anonymizer? There are lots of those available online. Like maybe http://www.rewebber.de/ or http://www.anonymizer.com/index.shtml?

Also try http://soapclient.com/googlesearch.html.

blocked, blocked, FREE
 

rewebber and anonymizier are both blocked, as are most anonymizers that i have tried. soap works though. is there any way to use it to search groups.google....?

Re: elgoog kinda silly
 

Mine seem to work, when spelled backwards. The text box works a little funny because it's right-aligned.

so i am an idiot
 

i am an idiot. i can get it to work now. but it still rather silly. canoe.ca's google doesn't require me to type backwards....but still can't access groups yet....*sigh*......