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Why Searches On Microsoft’s Bing Look Different in China

On The Big Take podcast, we take an exclusive inside look into Microsoft’s sophisticated censorship in China

Photographer: Yan Cong/Bloomberg
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Microsoft’s Bing is the second most popular search engine in China, a market that Google exited years ago. Today, Bing remains as the only Western search engine accessible there. But success has meant having to make significant compromises on issues such as censorship.