Gmail traffic trickles back into China
Gmail is starting to see life again in China.
Google's e-mail service has seen a slight uptick in traffic going into the
country, according to the company's Transparency Report. The Financial Times
(subscription required) was the first to notice that access had returned.
The increase hints at the end of a four-day outage in China, one with no
explanation. Greatfire.org, a China-based anticensorship group, suggested the
country may have been responsible, Reuters reported.
Google told CNET in an e-mail that there was nothing on its end that caused
the outage, while a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman told Reuters that
she wasn't aware of an issue.
A spokesman from the Consulate General of China's office in New York couldn't
be reached for comment about the outage.
Google has had problems operating in China for years, and the country blocked
Gmail access to its browsers in June ahead of the 25th anniversary of the
Tiananmen Square massacre. A loophole that allowed users to access Gmail
through Microsoft's Outlook or Apple's email client had been closed over the
past four days. That loophole has once again opened.
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