Bing allows users to access information freely available and published all over the world. In particular, this means accessing democratically-published newspapers and content that may be in opposition to the Chinese government. Such freedom of information could serve to undermine faith in the Communist Party. Bing is not the only search engine that’s blocked in China.
In fact, Microsoft went as far as changing their default search engine in China from Bing to the Chinese search engine, Baidu. The reason why Bing is blocked in China is the same reason many other websites are blocked. Bing allows users to access information freely available and published all over the world.
Then, why is Bing banned in China for 30 days?
Microsoft’s Bing, the only major foreign search engine available in China, said it has been required by a “relevant government agency” to suspend its auto suggest function in China for 30 days. Bing did not specify reasons for the suspension.
In addition, Bing’ servers and data centers are built in China and regulated by Chinese government. In a word, Bing is safe for Chinese government and Google not. Looking for paid search advertising experts?
You may be asking “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.
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 is Bing down in China?
We don’t know what caused it to go down, but earlier reports blaming government intervention appear to have been incorrect 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.
Does bing work in china?
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.
One thought is that Yes, Bing is available in mainland China and even appears to be either completely uncensored or only lightly so. A search just now (Sep 28 2010) for a very sensitive topic (89 学生运动, the 89 student movement) returned extensive results from both the PRC site and from the US-English site, both from behind the GFW. Why did China block Microsoft’s Bing?
Then, which search engine to use when Bing won’t load in China?
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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.
What websites are banned in China?
Nearly all Google services are blocked in China. This includes Gmail and the ability of using a simple Google search.