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Another one bites the dust: Has Yahoo been blocked in China?
Jun 28, 2007 03:28Attention Yahoo! Please send the powers-that-be in Zhongnanhai a few cartons of Zhongnanhai.
On the heels of the Flickr ban, reports are starting to trickle in that Yahoo has been blocked in China. That would be a pretty bold move, even for the Chinese Net nanny. Yahoo.com isn't working right now. Same for most other regional sites that I tried. Yahoo Canada, Yahoo Korea, Yahoo France, and Yahoo Thailand--all no go. Yahoo China is still up and running, however, seemingly unscathed by whatever has managed to bring down all the nasty foreign Yahoos.
But here's an interesting twist
Yahoo Japan can be accessed with no problem! Can someone explain to me how that one happened? Someone's crazy idea of an olive branch in Sino-Japanese relations maybe? Come on, guys, you can do better than that!
Could all this just be a technical problem?
Lets hope someone just tripped over the Yahoo plug...
If not, the Great Firewall can expect another round of colorful insults from millions of Chinese netizens.
Stay tuned...
Update - June 28
Yahoo now seems to be working again. I really hope this was just a temporary glitch.
Update #2 - June 29
It seems Vietnam also experienced a similar Yahoo crash. Maybe the Great Firewall was not to blame at all. I'm sending them some apology-cigarettes as we speak!
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On the flip side, Yahoo! China is now inaccessible in the United States.
Jun 28, 2007 05:49
Yes, I'm an American working in Beijing and suddenly cannot get to my email (yahoo.com)
Yahoo.com.cn works OK but I can't use that one since no one in the USA can access it anyway.
I have been trying to get ahold of the Grease Monkey script that allows access to Flickr and other Yahoo sites to see if that would help me bypass the block, but cannot access those sites either.
Any help is appreciated as I need to access my email for job reasons and so far have been left incommunicado by the block.
My alternate email address is:
human-us(at)lycos(dot)com
Thanks & Regards,
Steve
Jun 28, 2007 10:45
Yahoo! China is up again in the States... it was down for about 24 hours.
Jun 28, 2007 12:33
Yahoo China is DOWN and inaccessible in China at this moment...
Jun 28, 2007 12:40
YAhoo.com is NOW working again in Beijing!
I hope it stays that way! :D
Jun 28, 2007 13:20
The site is back now. For about two days I have been unable to track my clients sites rankings on Yahoo :-(
Pat
www.seo4china.com
Jun 28, 2007 17:13
@Pat: A good tool for checking yahoo rankings (or any SEO rankings) is www.popuri.us... and this tool would have been available even during this inexplicable/wacky outage.
Jun 29, 2007 16:42
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After years of honing his skills playing Shinobi on the rocky shores of Newfoundland, he moved on to become a freelance ninja. But due to a lull in the Canadian ninja market, Rick Martin teleported to Asia where he studied Chinese and the dark arts of China blogging. When he's not busy with all that stuff, he makes appearances at an international computer company where he does a little something called "work". He can also be found on Twitter and Facebook, or contact him via Email.
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