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Lunatique · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 3:47 am

I was wondering why I haven't been able to access google. A friend in California told me China had banned google.

I'm REALLY pissed. I've been a google user for years, and nothing else seems to compare.

Any other search engines any of you can suggest that matches google's power?

Svanur · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 4:42 am

Google is the only way to go. At least I think so.

Gimbal8 · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 5:08 am

What about something like dogpile.com that searches various other search engines? I don't think Google is one of the search engines Dogpile uses though. Otherwise you might be able to access google by proxy.

Google does rule. Why is it banned?

Lunatique · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 6:19 am

Gimbal8- They banned it because it's too easy to use, and they are afraid people here will get information on all the bad things China does through foreign websites.

Someone showed me the proxy trick once, and it didn't work. I might have done it incorrectly though. Can someone show me the proxy trick again? Thanks.

Awetopsy · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 7:32 am

before google I used Hotbot.com

they've lost some momentum tho.. but still a decent search engine.

King of Url · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 8:18 am

you can try this proxy: http://invis.free.anonymiser.com/
just type this url followed with whatever url you want to see, like this: http://invis.free.anonymiser.com/http://www.google.com

not sure if this is the trick you were thinking of, but it might work.

btw. it also allows linking pictures stored on a geocities site without renaming to .txt

Aber · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 8:22 am

You can use www.metacrawler.com - it searches google among other things like ask Jeeves.

-HoodZ- · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 8:01 pm

here Luna...i feel this is a good substitute for google

AllTheWeb

Lunatique · Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 12:33 am

The proxy trick didn't work. Thanks for trying to help though.

Thanks for the suggestions.

King of Url · Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 4:51 am

hmm, www.google.nl Reported as accessible in China

used this to check : http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/test/

maybe we shouldn't post to much of this stuff or else china might decide to block sijun.com

btw. altavista has been blocked now too

Pat · Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 7:29 am

No Google? Leave now while you still can!

-Pat

Coaster · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 7:42 am

Heres a mirror of google you can use in China. http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/ the only thing wrong is that it is as well actually a mirror image...

Lunatique · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 5:47 pm

King of Url- Very cool. That works. Thanks!

Coaster- Ya, I found that mirrored one yesterday through the eatpoo guys. It's a rea pain in the ass to have to run a script to reverse it all though.

I discovered by accident that you can access google through icq. Yay!!