Censored Search Engine

Search engine Bing's outage in China last week was reportedly a technical error, rather than an intentional censorship block.

Search engine Bing's outage in China last week was a technical error, rather than an intentional censorship block, a source familiar with the matter said, although Chinese authorities and Microsoft have not commented on the topic.

Facing widespread criticism over its "censored" Search engine for the Chinese market, Google has reportedly shut down a data collection system that was key to develop the search project code-named "Dragonfly".

According to a report in The Intercept on Tuesday, the move comes after hundreds of Google employees raised internal complaints that the project had been kept secret from them.

A global coalition of 60 human rights and media groups wrote to Google chief executive Sundar Pichai urging him to scrap the "Dragonfly" project.

The project, code-named Dragonfly, is not only real but is already performing to the satisfaction of top Google executives.

US vice-president Mike Pence has called on Google to end its censored Chinese Search engine the "Dragonfly" project.

In its bid to suppress a memo revealing information about a plan to launch a censored search engine in China, Google has sent an email to employees asking them to delete the sensitive document, The Intercept reported.

The letter to Google was signed by 14 groups including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Reporters Without Borders.

The protest letter has been signed by 1,400 Google employees and is circulating on the company's internal communications system, the report said.

Google is not close to launching a search engine app in China, its chief executive said at a company wide meeting on Thursday, according to a transcript seen by Reuters, as employees of the Alphabet Inc unit called for more transparency and oversight of the project.

Six US senators have written to Google CEO Sundar Pichai asking about the tech giant's reported plan to create a censored Chinese version of its search engine.

Reports that Alphabet Inc's Google may return to the Chinese market are not true, state-owned China Securities Daily reported on Thursday, citing information from "relevant departments".

Google's engineers and programmers have formulated a custom Android app that might have different versions named "Maotai" and "Longfei".

Alphabet Inc's Google is planning a censored version of its search engine for China that will block websites and certain search terms, The Intercept reported on Wednesday citing internal Google documents and people familiar with the plans.

Search engine Bing's outage in China last week was reportedly a technical error, rather than an intentional censorship block.

Search engine Bing's outage in China last week was a technical error, rather than an intentional censorship block, a source familiar with the matter said, although Chinese authorities and Microsoft have not commented on the topic.

Facing widespread criticism over its "censored" Search engine for the Chinese market, Google has reportedly shut down a data collection system that was key to develop the search project code-named "Dragonfly".

According to a report in The Intercept on Tuesday, the move comes after hundreds of Google employees raised internal complaints that the project had been kept secret from them.

A global coalition of 60 human rights and media groups wrote to Google chief executive Sundar Pichai urging him to scrap the "Dragonfly" project.

The project, code-named Dragonfly, is not only real but is already performing to the satisfaction of top Google executives.

US vice-president Mike Pence has called on Google to end its censored Chinese Search engine the "Dragonfly" project.

In its bid to suppress a memo revealing information about a plan to launch a censored search engine in China, Google has sent an email to employees asking them to delete the sensitive document, The Intercept reported.

The letter to Google was signed by 14 groups including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Reporters Without Borders.

The protest letter has been signed by 1,400 Google employees and is circulating on the company's internal communications system, the report said.

Google is not close to launching a search engine app in China, its chief executive said at a company wide meeting on Thursday, according to a transcript seen by Reuters, as employees of the Alphabet Inc unit called for more transparency and oversight of the project.

Six US senators have written to Google CEO Sundar Pichai asking about the tech giant's reported plan to create a censored Chinese version of its search engine.

Reports that Alphabet Inc's Google may return to the Chinese market are not true, state-owned China Securities Daily reported on Thursday, citing information from "relevant departments".

Google's engineers and programmers have formulated a custom Android app that might have different versions named "Maotai" and "Longfei".

Alphabet Inc's Google is planning a censored version of its search engine for China that will block websites and certain search terms, The Intercept reported on Wednesday citing internal Google documents and people familiar with the plans.