Google reportedly using Chinese site it owns to develop search term blacklist

We now know more about how Google is developing its censored search engine for China. To comply with Chinese authorities, Google has been using search samples from a Beijing-based website it owns to make blacklists, according to The Intercept, which broke news of Google's work on the censored search engine last week.

While most of Google's services are blocked in China, its website 265.com remains open. The search engine on 265.com redirects to Baidu, China's dominant search company, by default, but Google can apparently see the queries that users are typing in.

Google engineers are reportedly sampling those search queries in order to develop a list of thousands of blocked websites it should hide on its upcoming search engine in China....

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