Now China Blocks AltaVista
from the no-search-for-you dept
Following the news from earlier this week that China was blocking Google, now it seems that the mysterious censor has decided that AltaVista’s searches are a little too good as well and have added them to the block list. I wonder if (as per the article below this one) they’ve thought to block Metacrawler, as well, since they seem to search Google and AltaVista.
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Google API
Seems any site that uses the google API (like a Radio Userland site for example) would be able to get around this problem. Throw in a catchy name like “chinasucks.com” and watch the online ad bucks roll in…