Internet access in Libya was severed for several hours this weekend, as protestors took to the streets to demand an end to the 40-year reign of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
On Friday night, Internet monitoring firm Renesys said in a blog post that “Libya is off the Internet.”
The same night, Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team, tweeted that “queries from Libya to Google have dropped enormously.” He posted a link to Google’s Transparency Report, which allows users to drill down and see whether Google services are blocked in certain countries.
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