Bing could soon be the big word in Beijing as Microsoft moves to fill the void sure to be left after Internet giant Google blew the doors off its search engine -- and at least briefly, opened the Web to the world's largest censored society.
On Tuesday, Web searches on Google.cn that had formerly been censored appeared to return results to controversial topics, indicating that one day after announcing it was 99.9 percent certain to shut its Chinese search engine, search giant Google may have pulled the plug on censorship in the country. Searches for "Xinjiang independence" and "Tiananmen Square massacre" -- items that the Chinese government would ordinarily censor, return results that are critical of the government, making it appear that filters are no longer working.
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