Google claims to have cancelled its censored Chinese search engine project

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, Google's vice president of public policy, Karan Bhatia, said that the tech giant's much-criticized effort to launch a search engine in China had been abandoned. "We have terminated Project Dragonfly," Bhatia said of the controversial search app for the Chinese market that Google had reportedly been working on last year. He was responding to a series of questions from Republican Sen. Josh Hawley about Google's business with China. Google employees were decidedly not happy with this project, so internal pressure certainly seems to have made an impact.