WeChat makes content searchable on Google, Bing

  

WeChat has made its content searchable on some foreign search engines such as Google and Microsoft’s Bing, according to Reuters checks.

WeChat’s content, including articles and videos on its popular public accounts page, a feature similar to a news portal, has opened up to external search engines, other than its own search engine Sogou, these last days.

The Tencent-owned messaging app also announced last month that it would start allowing users to access external links, days after regulators asked the company and its rivals to end a practice. long standing of blocking each other’s links.

Chinese tech giants have historically prevented rivals’ links and services from sharing on their platforms. However, regulators have said they are ordering companies to rectify this as the practice affects user experience and infringes on consumer rights.