China Not Redirecting Search Engine Traffic to Baidu – Sumner Lemon

From Computerworld.com:

Internet users in Beijing and Shanghai said attempts to access Google Inc. and other search engines were successful today, despite claims on a U.S. blog that traffic to these sites was redirected to Chinese search engine Baidu.com Inc .

The claim first surfaced on TechCrunch, a U.S. blog that largely covers Internet start-ups, before being picked up by other sites. The headline of that post alleged “Baidu hijacking Google traffic In China,” but offered no evidence to prove the claim apart from an undated, modified screenshot showing Baidu’s Web page below the URL for Google Blogsearch. [Full Text]

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