Google denies it's still working on censored China search engine

Employees reportedly found code that suggests Google is still trying to get Project Dragonfly off the ground.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Google on Tuesday denied a report that work proceeds on Project Dragonfly, an edited internet searcher for China.

"As we've said for a long time, we have no designs to dispatch Search in China and there is no work being embraced on such a venture," a Google representative said in an email. "Colleagues have moved to new activities."

This comes after a gathering of anonymous Google workers allegedly discovered proof that Dragonfly isn't dead. The gathering recognized a clump of code related with the web crawler, as indicated by a report Monday from The Intercept. There were apparently 500 changes to the code in December and in excess of 400 changes among January and February. Representatives additionally found around 100 laborers still recorded under Project Dragonfly's financial plan, as per the report.

After extreme analysis, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said last October he didn't know whether Dragonfly could ever dispatch, and the task was allegedly closed down.

Task Dragonfly has raised in excess of a couple of eyebrows over the previous year. Subsequent to finding out about the venture last August, 1,000 workers dissented and some quit. Representatives collaborated with Amnesty International in November to send Pichai a letter requesting the venture be dropped. Some imagined that proceeding with the work would make Google complicit in China's persecution.

Subtleties kept on becoming visible about the venture, such as associating pursuits to telephone numbers, which would enable the legislature to follow clients. Dragonfly even caught the White House's eye last October. VP Mike Pence advised Google to quickly quit taking a shot at the venture.