Report: Google Planning to Re Launch Search in China

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There are reports that Google is planning to return the Chinese market with a censored search engine, currently codenamed, "Dragonfly."

According to internal documents provided to The Intercept by a whistleblower, Google has been developing a censored version of its search engine under the codename “Dragonfly” since the beginning of 2017. The search engine is being built as an Android mobile app and will reportedly “blacklist sensitive queries” and filter out all websites blocked by China’s web censors (including Wikipedia and BBC News). The censorship will extend to Google’s image search, spell check, and suggested search features. Report: Google Planning to Re Launch Search in China [theverge.com]

[Shepherd]

Looks like an internal meeting got a little feisty. Some live leaking and some F-bombs. Interesting that some employees are calling for an ethics review committee to be formed.

[yahoo.com...]

[keyplyr]

...filter out all websites blocked by China’s web censors

And level the playing field, thus minimizing any threat to forerunner Baidu.

Related: [webmasterworld.com...]