January 30th, 2006

How to Hack Google China

By Alice Hill
RealTechNews

As an American, I have to say censorship is not high on my list. And when I read about Google censoring China’s access to information, I bristled and then stopped to think about it. “someone will find a hack,” I decided. And here we are.

Chinese web users can see full, uncensored results for their Google search by replacing “&meta;=” with “&meta;=cr%3DcountryBR” in the URL. Once the string is replaced, the censorship will not affect the results. Via: Diggdot.us

See An Example Here

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28 comments to "How to Hack Google China"

  1. The Pants says:

    hooray for the hackers! there is something very commendable about denying an oppressive regime of their oppression. i hope your efforts are appreciated.

    January 30th, 2006 at 1:31 pm

  2. Simon says:

    positive hacking, nice to hear some praise for these people for a change :)

    January 30th, 2006 at 4:22 pm

  3. finalpatch says:

    This is pointless as people in China can actually access google.com instead of google.cn to bypass the censorship of search results. And the real problem is that you would not be able to access those sites if they are in the blacklist even if you can see them in the search results. As far as I know, the only practical way to browse freely in China is to use a secure proxy or Tor.

    January 30th, 2006 at 5:00 pm

  4. TechBlog says:

    Hey, China: Hack this

    Google’s drawn a lot of fire over its decision to censor its search results in order to do business in China. That’s in spite of its refusal to give up information about its search results to a U.S. Government fishing…

    January 30th, 2006 at 5:34 pm

  5. HeffeQue says:

    Let’s see whe the states stops censuring music, movies, etc. That would be great too!
    http://www.youtube.com/?v=ypieyXrU1wM

    January 30th, 2006 at 5:54 pm

  6. Dave says:

    maybe we can start a grassroots project to get this hack out to people in China?

    January 31st, 2006 at 8:52 am

  7. Yar says:

    This site has now been blocked by China. :(

    January 31st, 2006 at 4:32 pm

  8. J Smith says:

    Hmm.. not sure about the Chinese bypassing Google.cn by typing in google.com. Here in Ontario Canada, typing in Google.com will always bring you to Google.ca - big brother is here too !

    JSmith

    January 31st, 2006 at 8:12 pm

  9. MobuzzTV says:

    Hackers, Backers, Swappers, and Bloggers

    Google China hacked for censorship free results, Microsoft challenges Negroponte in effort to wire the 3rd world, Time Warner to use P2P to distrubute films - duh, German adman apologizes to bloggers for toilet remark.

    February 1st, 2006 at 12:48 am

  10. Trey Givens says:

    I Heart You, Geeks!

    The Chinese government is bad bad bad. And Google is stoopid for caving into to them. But check it: folks have figured out a way around the censorship. Go, geeks, go!…

    February 2nd, 2006 at 7:40 am

  11. Hier wird gebastelt! says:

    Google China hacken?

    Ja, man macht sich Gedanken in der Welt: Wohin soll das fhren, gefilterte Ergebnisse der Suchmaschinen in China? Bald auch bei uns? Ist das freie Web in Gefahr?Alice Hill meint jetzt die Lsung gefunden…

    February 2nd, 2006 at 11:25 am

  12. Tyke says:

    The problem is not just whether Google is censoring what the Chinese citizen may or may not see, it is whether Google can be coerced into revealing which citizens are seeking out which information!

    The only way we can impress our opions on Google is to boycott Google. If enough of us, in the West, switch off Google then its owners will get the message.

    Come on America, if you really feel strongly about this then take some affirmative action - don’t use Google until it changes its China policy. I am boycotting it from today.

    February 24th, 2006 at 12:17 am

  13. ichihollow says:

    cool so what happens when google decides to censor the us were the ones that need it. oh well the ones with power to rule are always the ones that need to be ruled and never need to be ruling.

    (oh yeah the answer is, learn a new language and get something other then Internet explorer.)

    if people were disciplined enough to learn a new language then they wouldnt need to be censored.lol oh well. we will never learn.

    July 13th, 2006 at 10:20 pm

  14. search engine says:

    free search engine

    August 1st, 2006 at 11:14 pm

  15. Graham says:

    Do you really think you get uncensored reports in US or UK media? The media says whatever your government allows it to reveal. That is why you only get the bad news coming out of Iraq and not the real story. Wake up: China is a wonderful peaceful place,and the Chinese people do a good job of managing THEIR country without outside interference. But meddling with other countries politics is something the Americans cannot do without. Wise up, China has one trillion US dollars in it’s Forex reserves, who do you think owns 30% of your pathetic country. I know about China, I live there.

    September 27th, 2006 at 5:59 am

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