Bing returning highly censored results in China – any insight?

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Bing suddenly started returning highly censored results on its China-facing search engine. Non-sensitive subject words still return very few results, extremely poor results and only from 'official' websites like chinadaily or other government sites.

Any insight here? Is this just censorship as usual, is it something new, or is it just a Bing screwup? Any thoughts appreciated!

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No idea what is going on (disclosure, MS employee in China, don't work on Bing). It could just be a glitch.

I was thinking this, it would have to be a major screwup though. It's basically killed the entire search engine for at least 24hors now.

Tell me about it, nothing like fully harmonized web searching! Looks like it's back to normal now.

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