It’s been a few months, so here’s addition “Google advancing to China” rumor

Get accessible for yet addition China-Google rumor, this time with a codename: Dragonfly. Is Google absolutely giving in to Chinese censorship?

Google is by far the best all-over chase agent on the planet. Alike admitting added chase engines abide like Bing, Yahoo, Ask, DuckDuckGo, and more, Google dominates the industry with a 72 percent allotment globally.

But there’s one abode area Google isn’t alike abutting to actuality top dog, and that’s China. In fact, in China, the absolute Google ecosystem has about no attendance at all.

The acumen for this is because the Chinese government requires all internet chase companies to acutely abridge chase after-effects to block “controversial” queries like those for animal rights, democracy, sex, religion, and peaceful protest. Google – so far – has banned to comedy ball, so Chinese citizens don’t get Google Search, Google apps, the Google Comedy Store, etc.

Over the years, there accept been abundant times area rumors accept popped up hinting that Google is assuredly activity to accept to the demands of the Chinese government to accompany Google to China. It’s happened so generally that you could apparently set your watch by it:

Today, internet account armpit The Intercept has a new rumor apropos Google’s declared amplification into China, this time with a cipher name: Dragonfly. According to centralized abstracts and “people accustomed with the [Dragonfly] plans,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai is accelerating Google’s development in China afterwards a affair in December aftermost year with a “top Chinese government official.”

The informants additionally say that Google has two censored Android app projects – codenamed “Maotai” and “Longfei” – that accept already been apparent to the Chinese government. If development continues at the accepted pace, Google could barrage these censored apps aural the abutting six-to-nine months, according to The Intercept.

Is all of this possible? Yes. Is it likely? No.

I’m not aggravating to say that The Intercept is alive off apocryphal advice or that this is an archetype of alleged “fake news.” But I am adage that the likelihood of Google anytime accordant to Chinese censorship afterwards about a decade of abnegation is appealing slim.

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It could be that these codenamed projects are article abroad entirely, such as simplified versions of “non-controversial” Google apps, like Maps for example. Chinese citizens allurement for admonition via Google Maps is appealing innocuous, and for Google to accomplish the app fit the limitations of the Chinese government wouldn’t crave abundant work.

But is Google absolutely activity to do that? I aloof don’t anticipate so. Aloof attending at the contempo account surrounding Google’s drone-warfare contract; can you brainstorm the beginning of protests from civilian rights groups beyond the apple if Google were to tacitly accept of Chinese censorship by affective its articles there? It would be a firestorm.

However, crazier things accept happened. But for now, I’m aloof activity to add this rumor to the continued account of accomplished rumors and move on as if annihilation happened.

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• A new rumor absorption on Google’s amplification into China hit the internet today.
• This time, there are three codenames involved: “Dragonfly,” “Maotai,” and “Longfei.”
• There accept been assorted rumors surrounding a China-Google accommodation over the years — but none accept anytime panned out.

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