Last year prior to the Sixteenth Congress of the Communist Party of China, except for major Taiwanese news sites such as the China Times and the United Daily News, search sites in traditional Chinese characters, such as Yahoo! Kimo, Sina.com, and Yam.com could generally be accessed from China.
去年十一月十六大召開之前，台灣網站除了中時、聯合等新聞大站外，奇摩、新浪、蕃薯藤等繁體中文搜尋引擎大多可以來去自如。