Last hit from Google China

Google has closed its search engine in China in a dispute over hacking and censorship. As an English/Japanese site, habilis.net has never seen much traffic from Google China, so the last hit was in early March. Someone in Beijing searched for “mac os lynx“:

221.x.x.x - - [09/Mar/2010:09:18:29 -0800] "GET /lynxlet/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3355 "http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&source=hp&q=mac+os+lynx&btnG=Google+%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2&aq=f&oq=" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; zh-CN; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6"

Ironically, the second to last hit from Google China was using Google’s own Chrome browser, but it is likely a foreigner because the browser is using English:

121.x.x.x - - [24/Feb/2010:07:38:36 -0800] "GET /validator-sac/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3137 "http://www.google.cn/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=validator-sac" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_2; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.322.2 Safari/533.1"

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