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Microsoft Accidentally Applies Chinese Censoring Outside of China

2014-02-13 19:19:10| TechNewsWorld

Microsoft cited an "error in our system" for quirky results given to users making searches in Chinese on the company's Bing search engine. Chinese-language searches outside of mainland China were yielding results that mirrored those inside mainland China, where Bing filters in accordance with the whims of Beijing. This resulted in wildly different results for English vs. Chinese language searches.

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