SEO Web Design with Binh Nguyen » blocking http://www.binh.name Freebies for SEO, Web design, computers, blogging Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:40:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/ en hourly 1 How to Access Blocked Google in China http://www.binh.name/access-blocked-google-china/ http://www.binh.name/access-blocked-google-china/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:08:31 +0000 Bình http://www.binh.name/?p=197 Google.com is really blocked in China. Here is my story how I discovered it's blocked, my personal understanding of the situation, and my solution how to still access Google.com in china.

When did Google get blocked in China?

Since yesterday I've been struggling accessing Google.com through Firefox. I thought Google blocked my IP for some reason. But it didn't make sense because my Google Chrome was still getting through to Google.com. I also tried to access Google.com.au and it worked.

Now, the truth is revealed. Apparently Google.com was blocked in China. I didn't know the reason yet, but I attempted to use Google.cn and searched for "China block google.com" results withing last 24 hours, and here are the first 3 results I got:

If you tried to open the results but see nothing, it's because China also blocked those sites.

My take on China blocking Google.com

It's no longer a surprise that China blocks some website, but Google.com??? In my mind I have no idea why would Google.com got blocked while Google.cn and other country specific Google are not blocked.

What I noticed is that Google.cn doesn't have any English, at all. But fortunately the results returned are from English websites so I could read it. So my another guess is that in the future China may block the whole English Internet communities and only allow censored Chinese sites. Or will China blocked the whole Internet and allow only sensored Chinese site? I think that will be very good fun because they won't know when some country want to get war against them, right?

Google is blocked in China and it affects only Internet surfer in China who use English. In other  words, China is pissing off the tourist in its country. I don't want to discuss anything about politics here, but economically China is destroying itself.

How to Access Blocked Google in China?

If you are in China right now, the best way to get through China is using this VPN solution. Other than that you can use Web proxy and other things, but those also may be blocked already.

I'm using Strong VPN right now and it worked :)

Goodluck with that.

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