Anyone being re-directed to Baidu when requesting Live, Yahoo, or Google?

[Hero Doug]

I haven't experienced this and I use both Yahoo and Google throughout the day.

Here's the article

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/18/cyberwar-china-declares-war-on-western-search-sites/

[Xiao Kui]

Thanks for the article. This happened to me earlier today (using yahoo search), and I even did a spyware scan cuz I thought my browser got hijacked, which now I know it was nannyjacked. During later searches (including one a few secs ago), however, I got results from yahoo w/o being redirected to baidu. I hope s/o has a strategy to put an end to this insanity soon - very annoying.

[roddy]

Cyberwar Quick! Jump to conclusions!

No problem here either. Wouldn't rule out the possibility of some ISPs doing it, although they're much more likely to redirect you to their own pages than Baidu. Blocked sites are still timing out rather than redirecting to any other page.

[roddy]

Xiao Kui and anyone else seeing this, can you tell us where you are and what ISP you are using.

Edit: Actually, this is happening, if I search Yahoo for a Chinese phrase, but not for English. And now when I go to search.yahoo.com I actually bet Baidu, although the yahoo url remains in the address bar. Cheeky %$"%$"£s.

[Xiao Kui]

I'm in Kunming, and my ISP is China Telecom. I was doing an English search in Yahoo Image search when I got redirected. I'm an artist and I use a lot of photo reference. Images from flickr and Google search started getting blocked starting several months back, but yahoo's been pretty good up until now. so far the redirect doesn't seem too successful since it's only happened to me once, so i'm hoping this turns out to be a temporary nothing.

[mr.stinky]

my us broker's market update page was redirected to baidu for several hours last night.

probably a problem stateside, as the circumciser only brought partial results. no problems

at present.

yahoo and google..au are working fine now. search on some touchy subjects results in

many pages of time-out links, but no blockage on the pictures accessed via the photo

or image links above the search bars.

[Hero Doug]

At work (not sure which ISP) any search on Yahoo goes to Baidu, but the other's (Google and live) are working fine.

Last night at my house (again, not sure which ISP) all were working fine.

Just some of the arrogant comments people are making really get's under my skin.

[Xiao Kui]

Just some of the arrogant comments people are making really get's under my skin.

???

[Hero Doug]

Not in this post, but the article has a good number of mindless comments.

Like if someone mentions something that's not totally against China you get a comments like this:

George, link to your blog. How do we know you are not a govt official PR person? They do that you know? Pop up randomly to steer public opinion.

John, either you’re with us or you’re against us. take a stand, have a backbone.

This one doesn't even have one supporting argument, just accusations.

China is a crappy totalitarian cesspool of slave labor, censorship, poison products, and oppression.

Outsourcing to Commie China is brain dead. I hate every friggin CEO who has moved shopfloors to China.

Poison pet food, toys, juice concentrates to USA is an Act of War.

China is the enemy of the world.

I have already declared cyberwar, mindbot, and blogocombat on China and am doing everything I can to destroy this rotten country.

You know I agree this country has more problems then it can deal with, but their attitude seam’s to me like a parent who see's their child is making the same mistake they made; and rather then helping them avoid the mistake they just beat them senseless. It just creates tension where none is needed.

[Loriquero]

problems accessing youtube

[gougou]

problems accessing youtube

So do these folks

[Senzhi]

According to a Belgian newspaper article (De Standaard, 19 October 2007), this redirecting issue seems to be a little joke from the government.

Mainly as a response to:

- Bush's latest inviting and issuing a medal to someone that the PRC government doesn't seem to like too much.

- Google having put a local version of YouTube online in Taiwan.

The newspaper also mentions that Baidu by itself has had no involvement nor responsibility in this. It appears to be purely a little political joke from the PRC government in cooperation with China Telecom.

[Hero Doug]

I think calling it 'a little joke' is adding a little too much sugar (as in sugar coating something).

Since it's in reaction to something they don't like I'd say it's definately a protest.

[gougou]

Since it's in reaction to something they don't like I'd say it's definately a protest.

As far as I am aware, the reason is purely hypothetical and subject of much speculation. While it's hard to imagine that it happened accidentally, this does not automatically link it to political events.

Unfortunately, I don't think we'll ever know for sure what caused this, so keep the speculations coming...