Apart from blocking Bing and deleting apps and pieces on online content, China has taken down 733 websites.
China has blocked Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, from operating within its territory. The search engine’s home page too remains inaccessible from within mainland China. With this, the Redmond, Washington based company has joined the list of US-based tech giant being prohibited from operating in the country.
The news has been confirmed by Microsoft, which in a statement to Reuters said that it was determining its next steps in the country. « We’ve confirmed that Bing is currently inaccessible in China and are engaged to determine next steps, » the company said in a statement.
Microsoft’s Bing was the only major search engine accessible with the Chinese firewall since the country banned Google back in 2010.
