Bing Accused of Censoring Simplified Chinese Language Searches

Courtesy Mashable!  Sat, 11/21/2009 - 13:25

The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof is controversially asking web users to “Boycott Bing “, claiming that Bing is censoring Simplified Chinese queries even outside the People’s Republic of China.

Last night, Bing responded to Kristof’s Friday afternoon posting, citing a programming bug but failing to deny the censorship claims.

To us, both sides of the argument seem lacking.


Boycott Bing?

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