-image-google: still available in china
In spite of complaints of redirection at Peking Duck and Boing Boing, Google has not started to redirect Mainland Chinese users to its censored service. Further, AsiaPundit has not noticed any redirection on the Great Firewall side.:
Both Google.com and the international Chinese-language site can be reached from various locations in Beijing. The above image shows search results, conducted from a Beijing IP address on the censored and uncensored versions.
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March 13th, 2006 at 9:38 am
No redirect here, either. Main site is accessible.
I did notice something odd a week or two ago, though. Three different search engines–google, yahoo, and MSN–gave me errors when I attempted a search. This lasted about a half hour, then they came online again for about 10 minutes, then off again for about 15 minutes, then back to normal functionality since.
I was blowing a gasket for that half hour, though.
March 14th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Chris,
Can you get to google.com at the moment. I can get to the .cn version without a poblem, but the .com isn’t resolving.
March 15th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
I am an university student in Shanghai using Shanghai TELECOM.
I feel something very weird with google in China now.
On March 14, all the users of Shanghai TELECOM couldn’t access the domain http://www.google.com, but http://www.google.cn is available.
I got the server IP of google.com from my friend in America.
The IP is 64.233.189.104 and it is available.
With the help of some netmates, I found out that only the network provided by Shanghai TELECOM was blocked. Cable network and education network in Shanghai and the network in other provinces are available.
I try to ping http://www.google.com.
The echo was redirected to http://www.l.google.com then time out.
Today all the network can access http://www.google.com.
It looks like nothing is abnormal.
But when I ping http://www.google.com, it redirects to www-china.l.google.com.
What is this server?
Its IP is 66.102.7.99 .
I try to tracert http://www.google.com , trace completes at 66.102.7.147 .
Furthermore, server IP of http://www.google.cn is 66.249.89.162 and ping will be redirected to cn.l.google.com .
I try to ping about 20 domains of google in this post:
http://www.kenwong.cn/post/funny-google-domains.html
Most of their echo IP is among 66.102.7.99/104/147 and 72.14.203.104/147
Few of their echo IP is 64.233.189.104 at first, but it will be among above IPs after some minutes.
Maybe the server of www-china.l.google.com has multi-IP .
To sum up, I think google is devided into 3 parts:
the one I called “real google”: 64.233.189.104
the one I called “substituted google”: http://www.google.com
the one I called “filter google”: http://www.google.cn
Here is my albume of 3 googles’ screengrab:
http://bubbleshare.com/album/19882.1fec7267302
They just have little difference, and the search results are different for some key words.
Perhaps all of these are ture, or they are just my illusion ?
Any one can tell me ?
PS: maps.google.com is unreachable until now.