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Q: Anyone else can't connect to google at all?
It's been just over a week now, and google hasn't worked on my two computers. Out of nowhere it'll connect maybe once, but overall 95% of the time it's not working.
11 years 37 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
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I don't have problems with connection through this two links in Nanjing, or anywhere in Liaoning.
It may just be your location, but I agree, generally, Google is a task to connect to. Here in Changsha, for the last couple of weeks I've had a much better chance of getting on. Before that, after a few seconds of using it I got the ol' "session has timed out" message, which is code for, "this isn't going through."
Part of the problem is the relationship between Google and the governmental agency which monitors and controls internet traffic into China. Google made the decision a few years ago not to self-censor their search engine in regards to questionable subjects according to the Chinese government. Since that time, the site has been slowed down to a molasses-speed crawl, which makes it almost unusable.
Access to the website does come in stages, however, and one day it's blocked, or super slow, and the next day it is as if nothing has happen. All part of the "cat and mouse game" that is played with information here in the Middle Kingdom.
Keep trying. You'll get connected...eventually.
I've also been told that aol.com uses the exact same search bots google uses but that doesn't have the same level of restrictions. Try it, can't hurt!
i had this problem this morning..but now it is all fine..googling my ass off
google is like someone with syphilis and HIV....Glorious China wants to protect its people from possible contamination....use protection..use VPN to connect with google...
