My understanding from former Google China folks is that they will randomly redirect DNS lookups for google.x domains to baidu, which may be what you're seeing.
Thanks for all the links and everything everyone -- very helpful! -Adam On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Marietta Le <marie...@atlatszo.hu> wrote: > Now that you mentioned Baidu and someone said 'user-friendly filtering' I > remembered that on IE at my workplace (BJ, China) I often end up on a Baidu > search page when trying to open google.hu. Of course the first search result > is always google.hu which then fails to open... > > Best, > Marietta > > On 14 August 2012 05:14, Philipp Winter <identity.funct...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 09:14:48PM -0700, Adam Fisk wrote: >> > My understanding is that China just shows a blank page. Is that correct? >> >> That depends on the type of filtering. The keyword filtering >> infrastructure >> forcefully terminates connections and depending on the browser you will >> get an >> error message saying something like "The connection was reset". >> >> You can actually test it yourself by going to baidu.com and searching for >> "falun". >> >> Philipp >> _______________________________________________ >> liberationtech mailing list >> liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu >> >> Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: >> >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >> >> If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click >> above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily >> digest?" >> >> You will need the user name and password you receive from the list >> moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >> >> Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. >> >> Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech > > > > _______________________________________________ > liberationtech mailing list > liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu > > Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: > > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click > above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily > digest?" > > You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator > in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. > > Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech _______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech
