In order to please its largest Internet users in the planet (300 million users), Bing is cleaning up some sensitive political contents against the Chinese government, such as searches for word of “Tiananmen,” “Falun Gong,” etc. As reported by pcworld.com, “the filtering appeared to occur for searches done both in and outside of China…”
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February 2012
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