Google Has Minor China Outage After Censorship Snub

From PC World: Some Google users in China had technical problems accessing the company's search engines on Wednesday, just two days after Google snubbed Chinese authorities by ending censorship for its search users in the country.

For up to an hour starting around 10 a.m. local time, several search users in China and dozens of messages on Twitter reported being unable to access search results on either Google.com or Google.com.hk, the company's Hong Kong search engine. For those users, any query on the two search engines returned an error message.

Other users had no problems accessing either search engine, and there was no national block placed on the Web sites such as the one China has slapped on YouTube and Twitter.

"Google.com.hk is not currently being blocked, although it seems that some sensitive terms are," a Google spokeswoman said in an e-mail.

The problems with search result pages appeared to subside quickly. Meanwhile, some other users said they were being redirected to the Hong Kong site when they tried to visit Google.com, leaving Google's main international search engine inaccessible. The redirecting continued into the afternoon for some users.

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