Microsoft Bing Plays It Safe: We Can't Easily Search for Politically Sensitive Chinese Personalities


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Microsoft Bing has been censoring names involved in Chinese politics. According to a new report published by the University of Toronto, Microsoft may be censoring search results on the Bing search engine for political dissidents in China as well as in the United States itself. The study, which was conducted by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto and published on May 19, came to the conclusion that the search results provided by Bing's autofill system, which makes educated guesses about what users are looking for after only a few keystrokes, frequently failed to connect users to the names...