It was more clever than that. They tried to reverse-engineer the Great Firewall's block list by running queries from their Chinese office, so they could make a

It was more clever than that. They tried to reverse-engineer the Great Firewall's block list by running queries from their Chinese office, so they could make a Chinese Censorship-compliant search engine that would work even outside the Great Firewall. As for trust in Google, has anyone actually believed they are benevolent for the last decade or so?