China Requires Microsoft’s Bing to Suspend Auto-Suggest Feature

China Requires Microsoft’s Bing to Suspend Auto-Suggest Feature
A sign of Microsoft Corp.'s Bing search engine is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China, on Sept. 21, 2018. Reuters/Stringer
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SHANGHAI—Microsoft Corp.’s Bing, the only major foreign search engine available in China, said a “relevant government agency” has required it to suspend its auto-suggest function in China for seven days.

The suspension marks the second of its kind for Bing since December, and arrives amid an ongoing crackdown on technology platforms and algorithms from Beijing.