In a new new for China, Beijing censors censored search engine. The block of Microsoft’s Bing comes after a viral WeChat post by a well-known former journalist attacked the quality of Baidu’s search engine and likely pushed traffic to Bing. https://t.co/35QoYBlruR— Paul Mozur (@paulmozur) January 24, 2019
Zero Hedge: China Blocks Microsoft's Bing Search Engine
As Google backs away from plans to introduce a re-engineered search engine to the Chinese market after provoking a chorus of scrutiny from lawmakers and its own employees, the Chinese government has abruptly blocked Microsoft's Bing from the Chinese Internet. The decision removes the only major foreign search engine left in China, according to the Financial Times. It makes Microsoft the latest US tech firm to be ousted from China since the Whatsapp messaging app was blocked in 2017.
While the website cn.bing.com couldn't be accessed from the mainland, the state remained accessible outside China.
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WNU Editor: This is China's response to U.S. efforts to convince American allies to drop Huawei as a supplier for 5G, and to worsening trade relations. As for blocking Bing, this is unfortunate for those who use the internet in China. I have used the Chinese Baidu search engine in the past, and it is not as good as Google or Bing.