Google CEO Sundar Pichai has defended Project Dragonfly, a project that investigated the potential of launching a censored version of the Google search engine and other products in China.<\/p>\n
Pichai was speaking at the WIRED25 conference, and 9to5Google reported<\/a><\/strong> that he said the aim of Project Dragonfly was to explore what Google would look like in China after eight years.<\/p>\n “People don’t understand fully, but [when you enter a new country] you’re always balancing a set of values,” Pichai said.<\/p>\n He said that these include\u00a0access to information, freedom of expression, and user privacy, but added that Google also follows the rule of law in every country.<\/p>\n Pichai said that the result of its investigation was that not only would Google be able to serve well over 99% of queries, but that there are several areas where Google could provide better information than what is currently available in China.<\/p>\n One example is searching “cancer treatments”.\u00a0“Today, people either get fake cancer treatments or they actually get useful information.”<\/p>\n According to Pichai, it is still “very early” and Google does not yet know whether it would or could offer the service tested.<\/p>\n With China representing\u00a020% of the world’s population, Pichai said they believed it was important to explore the option of providing Google’s services in the country.<\/p>\n Google CEO Sundar Pichai has defended a project to launch a censored version of Google in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":221903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49317],"tags":[167,54615,19709],"class_list":["post-280069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-google","tag-project-dragonfly","tag-sundar-pichai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280145,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280069\/revisions\/280145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Google executives confirm plan to bring search engine to China<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"