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Google's China shutdown was just a glitch
WHEN CHINESE USERS saw Google's website go down yesterday they assumed that the Communist mandarins had lost patience and shut the outfit down.
The site went down completely and Chinese users were unable to access search results.
Earlier this month Google stopped censoring its search results in China, which miffed the government. Google redirected its Chinese users to the uncensored pages of its Hong Kong website.
However when the Hong Kong site disappeared it was nothing to do with the glorious People's Republic stepping into prevent workers from discovering what happened to all those students in Tienanmen Square.
It was true that the site was automatically blocked by the Chinese but that was not really their fault. The Great Firewall of China filtering software blocks Radio Free Asia and for some reason in the last 24 hours the letters "gs_rfai" started appearing in the URLs of Google searches. As a result the mainland China firewall was automatically blocking them.
According to the BBC, Google is looking at ways it can fix the problem. µ
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http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/72936
// ==UserScript==
// @name Google China gs_rfai fix
// @namespace http://userstyles.org
// @include http://www.google.com/
// @include http://www.google.com.hk/
// @include http://www.google.com/search*
// @include http://www.google.com.hk/search*
// @author CIH
// @version 0.1
// @description 针对2010/3/30出现的google搜索被重置的临时解决方案
// ==/UserScript==
function clear() {
var cleared = disable_gs_rfai();
if(!cleared) {
setTimeout(function() {clear();}, 500);
}
}
function disable_gs_rfai() {
var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName("INPUT");
for(var i=0;i<inputs + document.title;
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
clear();
Its already at V2, enjoy
Couldn't Google just remove the word "gs_rfai" from their URLs? Why is it there in the first place?