Users are now reporting that Bing is again accessible in mainland China, reports Bloomberg today, and the publication was able to independently verify that the search engine is again accessible from within the Great Firewall.
Bing is down in China, several users have reported, stoking fear that Microsoft’s search engine might be the latest service to get blocked by the local government’s Great Firewall. Microsoft says it is investigating the matter.
Also, is Bing back in China?
Bing is back online in China. Late Wednesday evening in the US, reports surfaced that Microsoft’s search engine was blocked in China. Bing is now available again in the country, but it remains unclear if the outage was caused by technical issues or if the Chinese government intentionally blocked the search engine, if only temporarily.
UPDATE (January 24, 2019 at 11.05pm CST): Bing is back online in the Chinese mainland as of 10.30pm CST. Click here to read more. Browsing the web is no easy task these days. Com, Microsoft’s search engine, was blocked last night across the PRC.
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Microsoft’s Bing search engine is back online in China after nearly a day of outages that caused many to believe the service had become the latest American technology product to be banned by the Chinese government.
Why is Bing so popular in China?
Because Microsoft is fully cooperate with Chinese government . It means Microsoft host its server in China, and they allows Chinese government employees (censors / consent-content bloggers) to monitor Microsoft servers. Thus, all the information Bing presented is something approved by the PRC regime.
Why was Bing suspended in China?
According to Reuters, this is what Bing’s Chinese site had to say: “Bing is a global search platform and remains committed to respecting the rule of law and users’ right to access information.” The suspension was first noted on Saturday, though the reason behind it remains unknown.
Is Bing censored in China?
At some point between 2014 and the present, Bing was censored by the Chinese government, along with many other websites blocked by the Great Firewall of China. In fact, Microsoft went as far as changing their default search engine in China from Bing to the Chinese search engine, Baidu.
What happened to Bing?
On one hand, Bing’s disappearance came as a surprise because it had cooperated with Chinese authorities to offer censored search results. On the other, it looked like another potential casualty in the growing friction between the US and China.