Domains containing the word "search" in China were hijacked yesterday... pointing to search engine Baidu (and partly, another government website). Competition that was redirected this way included Microsoft Live.com (because results are showing on search.live.com), Yahoo.com (results are on search.yahoo.com), and Google Blog search (blogsearch.google.cn). Even some more exotic pages, like www.search.ibm.com.cn, were suffering from this hijacking. According to a source which I will keep anonymous here, the problem started around 1 am Beijing time on Wednesday. I don"t know if the problem persists, your comments are welcome.
The Baidu homepage
Chinese DNS servers are under government control though it is unclear whether this was a conscious attempt to give ...
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