October 18, 2007
Western Search Engines Redirected to Chinese Baidu.com
Various reports indicate that YouTube, Yahoo, Google, and Windows Live Search are all being redirected to Chinese search engine Baidu, in a possible move to block out news of the Dalai Lama's receipt of the Congressional Gold Medal. Beta News reports.
"Such a move would not be surprising, considering China has already done something similar in the past. In 2002, it redirected Google surfers away from the site ahead of the Communist Party Congress meetings.
That event is happening again in a few weeks (it happens once every five years), so it could also be a possible reason for the block, say Chinese censorship watchers.
... Baidu is not completely in the clear in this either: the company has been accused of meddling in government affairs to attempt to get the sites blocked for its own benefit."
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