# The Intercept reveals Google’s Dragonfly censored-search prototype for China

Date: 2018

## The fact

In 2018 reporting revealed Dragonfly, a censored-search prototype for China under [Pichai](/people/sundar-pichai)’s CEO years, later dropped after employee and congressional pressure.

## Context

Neighbouring Maven is the same year’s defence file. Neighbouring Cook GCBD is a different firm’s China file. He did not write a CAC statute.

Maven 2018 is neighbouring defence. Walkout 2018 is neighbouring labour. DMA 2023 is later EU law.

Sundar Pichai has been CEO of Google since 10 August 2015 and of Alphabet since 3 December 2019. He does not write a Sherman Act complaint, a Commission DMA article, a CAC circular, or a Pentagon contract clause by himself as a civil servant. A keynote is not a completed breakup. A liability opinion is not a Chrome sale. A layoff round is not a unique unemployment coefficient as his personal tally. TPU trains; TSMC and partners fabricate; App Review analogues on Play enforce. Keep those dates separate. An AI Principle PDF is not a completed weapons ban. A settlement is not a verdict. [Larry Page](/people/larry-page) is a different person. Sergey Brin is a different person.

## Evidence and sources

Google carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

A prototype is not a completed PRC launch.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2018 Dragonfly exposure and later abandonment, independently reported.

Not established: that Google Search fully relaunched in the PRC, or a unique later dissident coefficient from the leak.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Engineers built. The Intercept reported. Congress asked. The project was dropped.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The Intercept reveals Google’s Dragonfly censored-search prototype for China, not a later speech about The Intercept reveals Google’s Dragonfly censored-search prototype for China.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The Intercept reveals Google’s Dragonfly censored-search prototype for China on 2018-08-01 is not a licence to treat every later Google communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The Intercept reveals Google’s Dragonfly censored-search prototype for China into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He was CEO of the prototype’s issuer. Engineers built. The Intercept reported. Congress asked. The project was dropped. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Sundar Pichai: https://factrail.ai/people/sundar-pichai

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection
- Digital-Rights and Platform-Power Regulation: https://factrail.ai/drivers/tech-digital-rights-regulation

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-china-dragonfly-idUSKCN1L10K4
- https://blog.google/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/goog-dragonfly-2018