[Tfug] maybe OT: web site oddity

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 28 Jan 2010 at 12:56, Matthew Patenaude  wrote:

> Guys!
> 
> I have a strange situation with a sight I like to keep tabs on, namely, 
> distrowatch.com.
> 
> I have lately been running Chrome in Ubuntu, and it is quite fast. 
> However, when I try to go my bookmark for the main home page for 
> distrowatch, what I get instead is the following:
> http://114search.118114.cn/search_web.html?id=592&kw=distrowatch.com&nid
> =WS0rahFg%2B2ZNP/xL6p4lyg%3D%3D&st=web&param1=web&param2=
> [It does the same no matter how I try to get to http://distrowatch.com]

>From Tucson this is what I see:

    DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
    http://distrowatch.com/

> I live and work right now in China, Shanghai, and so it is no surprise 
> that something like this would pop up from time to time. It really is 
> just a search engine page, that includes a lot of links in it, the first 
> of which is distrowatch.com itself, however, if I click on that link, it 
> merely refreshes that aggravating page. 114search is sort of like a 
> phone operator for asking information.

What happens when you go to DistroWatch.com through TOR or an anonymizing 
proxy?

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