INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Google's controversial Chinese search product may still actually be in development according to a group of employees who carried out their
own investigation into the matter.Late last year, the company moved engineers away from working on Project Dragonfly and said that there
were no current plans to launch it
However, a small group of employees was unsatisfied with this answer from Google's leadership and decided to track the project's progress
themselves.According to The Intercept, the group discovered that a batch of code associated with the Chinese search engine was still being
updated even after the company had claimed it shut down the project.Project Dragonfly led to a public uproar both within and outside of
Google that led employees to protest against its plans to launch the search engine
This internal dispute eventually led the company to stop development of the project which was slated for release between January and April
of this year.In mid-December of last year, Google's Caesar Sengupta, who held a leadership role on Project Dragonfly, told engineers and
other employees working on the Chinese search product that they would be given new projects to work on instead
Sources with knowledge of the project said that staff were instructed to finish up the jobs they were doing before moving onto their next
led a group of concerned employees, not involved directly with Dragonfly, to monitor the company's internal systems for information about
the project.The employees have been closely watching repositories of code stored on Google's servers which they say is linked to Dragonfly
The code itself was created for two smartphone search apps codenamed Maotai and Longfei that Google intended to roll out to Chinese Android
and iOS users.The employees identified around 500 changes to the code in December and over 400 changes between January and February of this
They believe that this shows that development of Project Dragonfly has continued though some say that these changes could be attributed to
employees wrapping up their work on the project.Google has not given a definite answer on Project Dragonfly and it seems that the company
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