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China Tech News: Google.cn blocks "Carrefour", junk text messages, spam mail

Search for Carrefour's Chinese name 家乐福 on Google.cn right now and you get a blank screen with a one-liner (screenshot on the right) telling you that you can't access the results for your search term, and please go back to Google.cn to sear... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Wed, Apr 30 2008

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