In this, Sergey admits that it was a mistake to agree to the China’s censorship regime. I, for one, can vouch for that being the case. I am sure that apart from the contents from the search being different, they are also blocking access to blogger.com’s sites at *.blogspot.com. Here’s a copy of a traceroute I did from a hotel in Sanya, Hainan on April 20th at 10:39 PM:
[root@guille ~]# traceroute temasek.blogspot.com traceroute to blogspot.blogger.com (66.102.15.101), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 172.10.20.1 (172.10.20.1) 0.535 ms 0.593 ms 0.296 ms 2 202.100.199.97 (202.100.199.97) 2.563 ms 8.953 ms 9.928 ms 3 59.50.32.65 (59.50.32.65) 11.511 ms 5.138 ms 12.267 ms 4 59.50.32.37 (59.50.32.37) 3.141 ms 6.944 ms 3.657 ms 5 218.77.148.70 (218.77.148.70) 6.805 ms 6.571 ms 7.204 ms 6 218.77.144.142 (218.77.144.142) 4.129 ms 6.933 ms 8.154 ms 7 218.77.144.69 (218.77.144.69) 4.985 ms 6.944 ms 4.180 ms 8 202.97.40.237 (202.97.40.237) 12.827 ms 13.620 ms 12.890 ms 9 202.97.35.45 (202.97.35.45) 40.083 ms 40.185 ms 40.120 ms 10 202.97.33.38 (202.97.33.38) 55.250 ms !H * 52.067 ms !H
I could, however, get around it via anonymouse.org. Sigh.