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This morning (GMT+8), when I attempted to visit Google.cn, I was redirected to Google.com.hk (Google Hong Kong) instead. The page displays a sentence: "Welcome to the new home of Google in China". I've no idea whether the Chinese people can access this website. As announced by Google, Google.com.hk will provide Google Search services in Simplified Chinese without filtering any content, and the sales revenue of Google China will be dependent on the government's decision about this Hong Kong-based website.

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I live in Singapore, which is about 2,800 miles (4,500 km) from China. Yet, many of us still use Baidu. No, not for searching the web. Instead, practically every pirate is using it to find pirated chinese songs with Baidu. A search engine famous for piracy? If it was in the west, I think the owners would have been sued to death by now. As much as anyone can deny it, China is playing catchup with the newest programs out in the world. And the slightly weaker websites/programs still survive because of the sheer amount of people. Foreign websites may blocked in an moment's notice, and the domestic duplicates won't. Thus, creating an situation where people are using the backwater sites/programs. With the amount of traffic and foreign (often good) ideas out of the picture, this websites and programs don't really advance.

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Taking huge steps away from what made the series so popular, EA decided to remove resource management and base building, leaving only a single deployable unit called a "Crawler" which can build units. There is no Tiberium to harvest -- your Crawler just makes units out of thin air. The defining gameplay of Command and Conquer had been changed radically. The focus had turned to "domination",  where players try to capture key positions on maps -- exactly like Modern Warfare 2.While a smart move to attract the first person shooter crowd, the game lost the a lot of its strategic choices. There is no way of harassing the enemy's economy -- you just send your crawler to the capture point most in threat and fight him there face to face.

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I personally think that this is the best Google Street View capture ever, even much better than the "Old Dude Caught Picking Up Prostitues". Well, is this beautiful white bird, which resembles the seagulls in Pixar's Finding Nemo, heading for KFC? You can view the original street view image over at Google.

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Spam has been an increasing problem on Twitter. As the micro-blogging platform's popularity goes widespread, so does the amount of spam. Twitter has been infiltrated by an influx of unsolicited advertising, and businesses who are desperate in making a quick buck tend to create multiple accounts and shamelessly promote their products through them. Spammers are also using computer to hunt for keywords and sending an @reply to “relevant” usernames. And it's an eyesore to have these junk displaying in your timeline. In order to generate traffic quickly, sleazy marketers are now exploiting Twitter's trending topics by including the trending term in as many tweets as they can using dozens of accounts. Today, we are going to share with you guys some really astounding statistics of spam produced by the top 100 spammers on Twitter.

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