Interesting but not surprising tech news:

Chinese citizens trying to access sites owned by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft aren’t having much luck; instead, they’re often getting redirected to Baidu.

In all likelihood, Baidu, by itself, isn’t powerful enough to pull off this switch. Onlookers suspect the Chinese government, instead.

See also my analysis of parallel searches on Google and Baidu and how they are using RSS to rip content out of our sites and repackage it in a censor-friendly format.

Also, no one has yet convinced me successfully that Google isn’t still involved with Baidu behind the scenes, but that they merely backed off and officially reformatted their public involvement thanks to American outcry over their involvement with censorship efforts on behalf of the Chinese government. Is Baidu just a puppet for Google to act through and still maintain their “Don’t be evil” image?