One Product, Two Standards: Google To Fall Prey To China With Dragonfly?

Google appears ready to compromise with the Chinese government in order to return to one of the largest market in the world reports Bloomberg.

Google is reported to have been working on Dragonfly, a customised search engine for the China market. It is reported that Dragonfly could provide Chinese authorities a means of tracking whoever is daring enough to attempt searches deemed critical of the administration.

Reports suggests that software development took off after Google Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sundar Pichai met top Chinese officials.

China has the world’s largest number of internet users, many of its biggest and most innovative online companies, and a fast-growing artificial-intelligence sector with access to vast volumes of user data. Google has reportedly been hell bent on seeking ways to break into the market since 2014.

Chinese companies had earlier benefited from a market free of competition. But they find themselves having to balance the Chinese government’s desire to censor information and non-compliance is struck down swiftly.