Google banned in China?

Is google banned in China now?
Anyone else in China, I'd appreciate a response, neither me nor my friend can get on it, with the standard blocked:

Edit:

Seems to be back now, but it was just out in Harbin, Beijing and Shanghai.
All with firewall symptoms, scared me good.

 

GOOD to know it was out probably it was a network issue..

 

its probably just overloaded servers. i dont think they are going to ban google anywhere, it is simply firmly entrenched in peoples minds.

 

I think Google will never be banned in china...

 

Not banned,just a network issue,I think.I can visit it as usual.

 

network issue

 

No reasons to ban google.

 

This is a very common issue in China. Ive never heared of google beeing blocked, but I lived in China many years and I know how their internet works. The have a system where the government can block any domain name and if there is a popular site where people say something bad about the government or maybe if a company pays the government to block foreign competition. The government can simply switch you off without reason.

For example... When people talked about the problems between China and Tibet ( just before the 2008 olympics ), blogspot and youtube were blocked for 2 weeks.

A week after the sichuan earthquake, hotmail and blogspot were disabled for 5 days.

They could easily block adsense or google for any reason - or without reason.
Maybe if they start a chinese adsense-like company, they switch off google forever, so that advertising money to stays in the country.

Many times I suspected that tudou.com pays the government to disable youtube....

Some sites are blocked permanently.

CHECK THE "Great Chinese Firewall" lol

 

I have a feeling it is partially automated, it doesn't feel like a network issue, I know network issues, and I know the firewall all too well...
I'm almost feeling Google got automatically blocked, and got itself unblocked really fast, or some type of error on their part by someone.
Also I believe they already blocked Google once in 2006 as I recall.
Whatever the reasons, I'm glad it was only for about 5-10 minutes or so... The fact it was country wide scared me...

 

Yes, probably that has happened in india too. Yesterday when I was downloading chrome, it says Connection tothe server has lost and at the same time my internet was working fine..

 

The Great "Firewall" of China, LOL.

 

in Pakistan too but as it was my home page it shows error but when i manually enter just google dot com it opens but some time connection reset
and i think it is due to Singapore because we (china india bangladash pakistan phill) using internet services from the same provider

 

ha ha google no banned anywhere, just having network problem for temp period.

 

Very Interesting

 

what would be happen if google banned one country ..

 

I dont thing Google is banned in China. But in China this type of thing are not unexpected.

Good one pixeldawn

 

yes bro this is a network problem.

 

oh! man great answer.

 

I heard Google was going to block India due to all the spam.

 

its impossible.... its a network issue..