Google is not working on a bespoke search engine that caters to China’s totalitarian tastes, and it has no plans to develop one, CEO Sundar Pichai told lawmakers on Capitol Hill. “Right now, we have no plans to launch in China,” he told members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee at a public hearing on Google’s data collection, use and filtering practices. “We don’t have a search product there,” he said. “Our core mission is to provide users access to information, and getting access to information is an important human right.”
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Pichai Puts Kibosh on Google Search Engine for China
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. December 12, 2018 05:00 AMGoogle is not working on a bespoke search engine that caters to China’s totalitarian tastes, and it has no plans to develop one, CEO Sundar Pichai told lawmakers on Capitol Hill. “Right now, we have no plans to launch in China,” he told members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee at a public hearing on Google’s data collection, use and filtering practices. “We don’t have a search product there,” he said. “Our core mission is to provide users access to information, and getting access to information is an important human right.”