Access to Search Outside the US
September 23, 2010
This is not specifically about “beyond search”. The article is about “actually searching.” If you are in certain countries, access to mostly unfiltered Web sites can be tricky.
If you want to access all that you couldn’t for various reasons, then there’s LifeHacker.com’s “Top 10 Ways to Access Blocked Stuff on The Web.” It offers tips like getting quickie user/pass combo you can use to log in on just about every site on the net, or tricks to work-around with the browser’s user agent, for checking out Gmail’s new iPad interface on anything but iPad.
The site suggests the old trick of copying and pasting the URL onto Google for the blocked pages, ways to access Gmail when it is down, or how to always get BitTorrent speeds, and access sites taken down by traffic. You also learn to remote control computers, access country-blocked streaming TV, and roll your own proxy to access blocked sites by using PHProxy on the local web server setup on your computer. We find the site information a valuable reference, quite handy for searching information in certain countries.
Our suggestion: download and keep handy if you travel far and wide. We are not advocating any action that would violate a rule, law, regulation, or custom. Information, however, is often just darned useful for its own sake.
Harleena Singh, September 23, 2010
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