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There should be nothing new. Google services are blocked for several years. But not every service is blocked in the same way. Google+ and Docs is wholly blocke
by turingbook 14y ago
There should be nothing new. Google services are blocked for several years. But not every service is blocked in the same way.
Google+ and Docs is wholly blocked a long time ago. Google.com is blocked intermittently. Gmail and Maps are usually OK, but not very fluent these several days.
GFW is a mysterious monolithic and complex system. No outsider knows the rules and mechanisms.
- b6 14y agoI agree. I just want to add that I think they have a "degrade" mode designed more to be annoying than to block access. I know people here in Shanghai who hate Google products because they're so "slow", "unreliable", etc. Of course, they're perfect through a VPN.
- turingbook 14y agoActually I have switched to Bing as my default search engine for a while. For English, Bing is good enough but very bad for Chinese.
- lispython 14y agoI use DDG, as when the Chinese results far from your desire, you can easily add some key words like g! to invoke google's engine for help.