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Google Is Still Working on China Search Engine, Employees Claim

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

Google is still pursuing its plan to launch a censored search engine for China, The Intercept reported Monday, citing unnamed employees. From the report: Late last year, bosses moved engineers away from working on the controversial project, known as Dragonfly, and said that there were no current plans to launch it. However, a group of employees at the company was unsatisfied with the lack of information from leadership on the issue -- and took matters into their own hands. The group has identified ongoing work on a batch of code that is associated with the China search engine, according to three Google sources. [...] The employees have been keeping tabs on repositories of code that are stored on Google's computers, which they say is linked to Dragonfly. The code was created for two smartphone search apps -- named Maotai and Longfei -- that Google planned to roll out in China for users of Android and iOS mobile devices.

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  1. Flawed Understanding of Corporate America by al0ha · · Score: 3, Insightful

    These Google employees make me laugh. They really think Google is going to give up untold millions of dollars just because China requires filtered search results that adhere to the Politburo's censorship?

    Me-thinks all you people need to get out and vote if you really want to create change where US companies do not do business with Totalitarian regimes and support censorship and servitude.

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    1. Re:Flawed Understanding of Corporate America by 110010001000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It really isn't surprising. I mean look at Tesla. The rank and file really believe in a "mission" that is beyond making billions for the board members. It is rather astonishing, but I guess when you worship technology you find your saviours there.

  2. Re:I don't get the Hate for this project by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes, being in China would suck. But their policies certainly aren't going to change because of a google.cn site.

    The second this censorship engine is complete, other nations will suddenly demand their own version too. This is about more than just China.

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