Google is Blocked in China

Google is blocked in China, but you still can use the chinese google (google.cn). Well, here at THEM beijing, a big part of our documents, emails, contacts, are ... on google, so you can imagine that this is no good news for our business.
 
Besides, we serve mainly foreigner clients who work in china, and they find our search engine optimization company through... google search engine of course! So, something tells me I will have no contact or requests coming from our website today!
 

 
That's so chinese... the government decides something, you don't know why, you don't know for how long, you just have to adapt, and that's what we're going to do (actually, we may know why, because the government is pissed that we can find porn through google, but we can find it through baidu too!). They also blocked twitter few days ago but now it's working again.
 
For those of you who are in Beijing or China and who cannot access their emails, actually, you still can have them through google pop or imap, and download them to your email client like outlook or thunderbird.
# Google GMail POP Settings

The GMail service offers email client access for retrieving and sending emails through your Gmail account. GMail uses POP3 over an SSL connection :

• Google Gmail Incoming Mail Server (POP3) - pop.gmail.com (SSL enabled, port 995)
• Outgoing Mail Server - use the SMTP mail server address provided by your local ISP or smtp.gmail.com (SSL enabled, port 465)

Sometimes it's desperating, but we also love China for that, new challenges everyday!
 
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Edit : it seems that google is going up again little by little, few friends in other places in china telling me they can access it again now, but i am in beijing and i still can't.
and this article reminds us that It's not the first time google is blocked