Google CEO drops hints of future search service in China

Published December 11, 2018 4:48pm ET



Google’s top executive denied reports Tuesday that the tech giant plans to introduce a censored search engine in China in the near future, less than a decade after the company left the country over human rights concerns, but did not rule out future plans.

“Right now, we have no plans to launch in China; we don’t have a search product there,” CEO Sundar Pichai told the House Judiciary Committee in answer to a question from Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat. “We are committed to being fully transparent, including with policymakers, to the extent we ever develop plans to do that.”

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