Cyber War: China vs Western Search Engines
As many people knew, the Chinese search engine Baidu is leading in terms of the volume of generated traffic in China (and in the world ranking it is also in the top-10), and just yesterday, Chinese Internet users noticed that when they tried to get to http: // blogsearch .google.com (google blog search) they see the baidu.com home page:
Later it was reported that requests to other popular Western search engines (Yahoo.com and MSN.com) are also redirected to Baidu. Access to YouTube and Flickr services was also blocked.
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There are no official explanations from the Chinese government, but many online media suggest that this is China’s response to the recent Dalai Lama award in Washington.
via http://searchengineland.com/
Later it was reported that requests to other popular Western search engines (Yahoo.com and MSN.com) are also redirected to Baidu. Access to YouTube and Flickr services was also blocked.
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There are no official explanations from the Chinese government, but many online media suggest that this is China’s response to the recent Dalai Lama award in Washington.
via http://searchengineland.com/
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/15223/
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