Google kills 'Project Dragonfly' China search engine project

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/17/google-kills-project-dragonf.html

The company hasn’t ruled out doing other work for China.

To be replaced by… what?

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Terminated? Or… terminated (wink wink)

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It’ll be back.

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Regroup, rename, resume.

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Has the Lie-O-Meter been hooked up on this one?

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The Facebook of search.

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I presume that somewhere in the bowels of Google, lawyers are already drawing up the paperwork for a wholly-owed-and-yet-deniable-subsidiary.

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They could look into how Ford Germany organised things between 1933 and 1945.

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I just did a search for 1940’s Fanta bottles, and came across this. I presume it is simply a trick of the light, coupled with knowledge of the environment that lead to the creation of this product, that makes this bottle appear to have a death’s head.

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“Don’t be evil” was always a really good joke, but we can all stop laughing now. As Charlie Pierce would say, they really are the fcking mole people.

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Google Makes Announcement to the Effect They Have Killed ‘Project Dragonfly’

There - made it more accurate for you.

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They have templates and numbered-step procedures in PDF format. All it takes is one signature.

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