How to survive the slow connection
By ET
The underocean cable is broken between the US and HK. The biggest impact I had was probably the broken connection with Google, which I use all the time. Today, I need to find a paper by Rebecca Henderson and Kim Clark, but I don’t remember the title. Google used to be the best solution, but I could not connect to google.com or scholar.google.com. All other search engines were inaccessible, too. There are a few Chinese search engines, but they returned funny results for the term “henderson and clark”.
There are a few ways to get around this slow connection. One possibility is to use proxy servers. There are many scanner softwares to search for proxy servers, and I got one: 148.233.159.58:3128. The problem with proxy servers is that they are not reliable. Soon I found that they are not usable again.
A second option is to go to the library and find physical copies of the journal “Administrative Sciences Quarterly” and browse through the titles. I’d rather avoid this option because anything physical is too costly to me.
I found the third option. I know the connection with China is not affected, so I simply visited google.cn. This host is notoriously restrictive as it can not show anything political and pornographic. Forturnately, I’m not using it for these purposes. It took no time for me to find the paper titled “architectural innovation” and downloaded from JSTOR.
No use to click on the “cached view” of the pages in google.cn, as they are all referred to a cache server located in the US. Though not perfect, google.cn did help me to solve my problems.
