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Google is a division of the parent company Alphabet. Google is the world’s biggest search engine with greater than 90% of the world’s total search marketshare. Company’s primary revenue source in advertising through what it calls Google Ads.

Google was started by Sergey Brin and Larry page in the dotcom era of 1999 and went public in 2004. It has been involved in many controversies since than and the biggest of them have been around user piracy and collecting too much information about users and using that data for profit in unethical ways.

Current CEO is Sundar Pichai who hails from India. The latest controversy about the company has been its blacklisting of right wing sites in search results. Prior to that Google+ was shut down out of data leak concerns.

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Apple engaged in abusive conduct and practices, reveals CCI’s anti-trust probe, slams iPhone maker’s dominance in apps market

OpIndia Staff - 13 July, 2024

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has been investigating Apple Inc since 2021 for abusing its dominant position.

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Google Translate adds 110 new languages including Awadhi, Chhattisgarhi, Marwadi and Pakistani Punjabi using PaLM 2 AI language model

OpIndia Staff - 27 June, 2024

Google is adding support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, the company announced on Thursday

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Big Tech against children’s online safety? Google, Meta spearhead over $1 mn lobbying efforts to oppose NY bills aimed at protecting children online

OpIndia Staff - 21 May, 2024

The lobby effort is being conducted against the two bills that would prohibit the use of algorithmic recommendations on children and the collection and sale of personal data from users under the age of 18.

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Google fires 28 pro-Palestine employees involved in protest against $1.2 Billion Israel contract

OpIndia Staff - 18 April, 2024

Protesters are demanding that Google pull out of the $1.2 billion “Project Nimbus” contract, under which, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services provide cloud-computing and artificial intelligence services for the Israeli government and military.

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California: Former Google engineer Linwei Ding charged with stealing AI trade secrets for Chinese companies

OpIndia Staff - 7 March, 2024

A former Google engineer was reportedly charged with stealing AI trade secrets for Chinese companies. 38-year-old Linwei Ding was arrested and charged with theft of trade secrets in California

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Insanity of responses from Google AI is staggering: Tech Billionaire Elon Musk criticises Google for their shoddy product ‘Gemini’

ANI - 5 March, 2024

Elon Musk also accused Google and Facebook of political bias saying, "Google and Facebook/Instagram have a strong political bias."

‘We definitely messed up’: Says Google co-founder Sergei Brin on Gemini AI fiasco, people notice man wearing bizarre ‘naked woman’ shirt

OpIndia Staff - 3 March, 2024

While Google co-founder Sergei Brin admitted they messed up with Gemini AI, people noticed shirt of a man that asked the question, which had full body print of a naked woman

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Google reverses its decision, agrees to restore Indian apps after IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw’s intervention

OpIndia Staff - 2 March, 2024

Google reversed its earlier decision and agreed to restore the Indian apps removed from the Play Store over a dispute regarding the service fees.

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Rahul Gandhi blabbers about networks, Iraq when asked about AI: Here is what Annamalai said on the tech, its effects & future

Shraddha Pandey - 1 March, 2024

While Congress’ lifetime Prime Ministerial candidate launched a clueless rant when asked about artificial intelligence, a similar question was posed before BJP’s popular leader K Annamalai whose sensible and visionary response left the audience impressed.

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