Sunday, November 18, 2007

China In the Habit of Copying And Redirecting US Sites?

Posted by Zonk on Sunday November 18, @04:42PM
from the not-the-way-you-play-the-game dept.
Want to know why US web companies have trouble making it China? gaz_hayes passed us a link to the blog commiepod, which suggests that successful US websites are targeted by 'Chinese government backed companies.' "These companies copy the site, deploy it on a .cn domain, and then DNS poison or forcefully lower the bandwidth the US site. Just a few weeks ago google.com and google.cn were DNS poisoned across the entire Chinese internet and were being redirected to their Chinese competitor Baidu. This probably explains Google's 3rd quarter market share in China." This is a fairly serious accusation; anyone else have first-hand experiences that would back this up?

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