Google is in the news for 2 reasons, both linked. 1st – it plans to re-launch its search engine in China. That’s right. For those of you who were not aware, Google Search had been banned from China in 2010. The other reason is that the search engine may be a heavily censored one, a sanitized version, raising howls of protests. Read on…..
Google Considering Censored Search Engine for Return to China – Wall Street Journal
http://news.google.com Aug 1, 2018
For a Return to China, Google Is Said to Build a Censored Search Engine – New York Times
http://news.google.com Aug 1, 2018
Google’s China strategy hints at global trajectory – Warc
http://news.google.com Jul 31, 2018
BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO: Google has launched an artificial intelligence game in the form of a mini-app that will sit within Tencent’s WeChat platform, a sign not only of the company’s ambition to re …