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China says has more people surfing the Web than US

BEIJING (AP) -- China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.... ...full story at AP

from AP on Fri, Jul 25 2008

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