News spread fast on the afternoon of December 15 when several netizens discovered that the ban on Google appeared to have been lifted and they were able to access the search engine without the assistance of a VPN.
Many of the users speculated that the government and Google had reached some kind of agreement and were excited at the possibility of being able to access it.
However, by yesterday evening, users found that the ban was back in place, and the temporary glitch was due to a routine upgrade in the Great Firewall meaning for now, a Google-China reconciliation is still a distant dream.
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It must bother them so to see how in-demand Western products are. Short-sighted really, as most of their top business people use Google-related products for their international dealings. In blocking/slowing/hacking/ambushing Google, they're inconveniencing their own players.
Dec 17, 2014 08:44 Report Abuse
That explains why yesterday all my Google apps on my phone were connected, Google Now was oddly updating information all day long for me and location services were working.
Dec 16, 2014 22:15 Report Abuse
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