Despite an American blog has posted that the users from Shanghai and Beijing have not been able to access Google Inc.’s search engine on Friday, the users themselves have just denied the news. They have said that they have been able to successfully access Google’s search engine, as well as other search engines, and that the traffic to these web sites has not been redirected to the Chinese search engine Baidu.com Inc.

The claim has initially surfaced on TechCrunch, which is quite a popular American tech blog, under the headline “Baidu Hijacking Google Traffic in China”. However, the blog has not been able to prove the claim; they have just posted an undated modified screenshot that has been showing Baidu’s web page below the Google Blogsearch URL.

TechCrunch has also said through a follow-up post that “new reports have surfaced that would indicate that China has unilaterally blocked all three major search engines in China and is redirecting all requests to Baidu.” Users have been allegedly redirected from American web sites to China’s Baidu search engine. On the other hand Google’s spokeswoman from Beijing has not immediately answered to the email messages that have been seeking for more information.

But in this context, several Internet users from Shanghai and Beijing have said that the American search engines Google, Yahoo and others, including Google Blogsearch, have been accessible on Friday. They haven’t been redirected to Baidu.