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Dragonfly (search engine)

The Dragonfly project was an Internet search engine prototype created by Google that was designed to be compatible with China's state censorship provisions. The public learned of Dragonfly's existence in August 2018, when The Intercept leaked an internal memo written by a Google employee about the project. In December 2018, Dragonfly was reported to have…

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Dragonfly (search engine)

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Avg. degree1.96
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google dragonfly search chinese engine project china 2018 google's employees work privacy government users would results information cn censorship intercept

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Wikipediainstance ofDevelopmentThe Dragonfly search engine was reportedly designed to link users' phone numbers to their search queries and censor websites0.80text
those that publish information about freedom of speechinstance ofDevelopmentThe Dragonfly search engine was reportedly designed to link users' phone numbers to their search queries and censor websites0.80text
human rightsinstance ofDevelopmentThe Dragonfly search engine was reportedly designed to link users' phone numbers to their search queries and censor websites0.80text
democracyinstance ofDevelopmentThe Dragonfly search engine was reportedly designed to link users' phone numbers to their search queries and censor websites0.80text
religioninstance ofDevelopmentThe Dragonfly search engine was reportedly designed to link users' phone numbers to their search queries and censor websites0.80text
and other issues considered sensitive by the Chinese governmentinstance ofDevelopmentThe Dragonfly search engine was reportedly designed to link users' phone numbers to their search queries and censor websites0.80text
Windowsinstance ofpartnerships with technology platforms0.80text
WeChatinstance ofpartnerships with technology platforms0.80text
respectively.Because Google is not available to users in Chinainstance ofpartnerships with technology platforms0.80text
the company wanted to find some way to gain access to the Chinese marketinstance ofpartnerships with technology platforms0.80text

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