blogoscoped.com — Carrefour boycott, Chinese response to pro-Tibetan protests in France, gained new corporate supporters. Two biggest Chinese search engines Google and Baidu decided to block all searches for the "家乐福" (Carrefour) keyword displaying a brief message instead.
Apr 29, 2008 View in Crawl 4
philipp_lenssenApr 29, 2008
I'm inquiring with Google if this is by any chance an act just by the Chinese gov't without Google helping, if anyone knows more, your comment is appreciated.
ariaaronApr 29, 2008
It definitely is possible for the government to re-route the requests by changing the DNS server.I believe this IS the truth, as the copyright on the page says 2006, while real Google pages say 2008, as it is supposed to be.
ludwikApr 29, 2008Submitter
I don't really think that's possible. China can only modify traffic they control. Google (as a policy) doesn't have servers in China and I'm not in China, so traffic between me and Google server isn't going throw china, yet I still see this message.Of course Chinese Government control .cn domain system, but to modify the website they would have to change the DNS record and this would be visible to anyone. I just checked and the DNS record points to a genuine Google server.Anyway, you can check for yourself by trying a version in the .com domain system:<a class="user" href="http://cn.l.google.com/search?hl=zh-CN&ie=GB2312&q=%BC%D2%C0%D6%B8%A3&btnG=Google+%CB%D1%CB%F7&meta=&aq=f">http://cn.l.google.com/search?hl=zh-CN&ie=GB2312&q ...</a>Google Government doesn't have any technical control over this one, and it still shows the message.