Archive for June, 2009
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
From some friends I just received the message, that Google seems to be blocked within China mainland While You can still access google.CN from any place within China, the normal version google.COM seems to be blocked in several parts of China. I've read some China forums and it seems that ...
Posted in China in General | 2 Comments »
Friday, June 12th, 2009
In China's never ending quest to control the Internet, they spend a whooping 40 million yuan on a software called Green dam: 绿坝－花季护航. to check the content of websites and block anything that might do harm to a user. Namely pornography and violence. The software seems to be a failure ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Microsoft some days ago released their new search engine Bing to the public. Apart from the question "Is Bing any good, compared to Google?" there is another one: What does Bing mean? Having a little knowledge in Chinese, this word sounds suspicious to me. And Bing does sound Chinese is ...
Posted in Various stuff | 4 Comments »
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
This topic is all the rage these days, so I wonder what hasn't been said about this incident. There is not much left to be honest, so I'll keep it short. Searching for 四六 in Google Imagesearch will bring up some disturbing pictures, at least if You are outside of ...
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