Google Lacks Guanxi

So it appears Google is now blocked within China… So I was checking my logs and a spider for some new Chinese Google lookalike site, OpenFind, is crawling my site voraciously. It’s not shy and retiring like the GoogleBot but instead likes to swallow a lot of resources. Reminds me of the nasty AltaVista bot in its heyday.

Anyway, knowing the way business gets done in China, perhaps someone in the party-military-industrial complex with serious guanxi got Google firewalled to make a nice cosy space for this OpenFind in the Chinese marketplace?