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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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Economy and Finance

Google to build India’s largest AI Data Centre with $15 billion investment in Visakhapatnam in close collaboration with Adani Group and Airtel

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The government of Andhra Pradesh had previously put the investment at approximately $10 billion, and stated the project would generate approximately 1.88 lakh (188,000) direct and indirect employment opportunities.
Editor's picks

With Michel Devoret in Physics, Google bags its third Nobel Prize in two years, fifth including former associates: Read which private company has the...

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Google has just won its third Nobel Prize in two years, and the fifth by association. On October 7, 2025, the Nobel Prize in...
Tech

The Artificial Intelligence reshuffle: Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Google and Intel navigate job cuts and workforce transformation as AI takes over

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The tech industry's aggressive pivot toward artificial intelligence has triggered a historic workforce realignment in 2025.
News Reports

What is Google AI mode, how it will change search, and what are its implications? Explained

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AI Mode is not to be confused with AI Overview, the summarising feature that was introduced by Google back in May 2025. While AI Overview is clumsy and provides condensed answers using the older PaLM 2 model, AI Mode marks a significant leap forward.
News Reports

Indian Government warns Google Chrome users to update the browser immediately due to security risk

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As per the notification by CERT-In and Google, these vulnerabilities affect users running older versions of Google Chrome browser on Windows, Mac and Linux. Specifically, if the browser version is below 134.0.6998.88/.89 on Windows and Mac or 134.0.6998.88 on Linux, the system is at risk.
News Reports

Google opens ‘Ananta’ in Bengaluru, one of its largest state-of-the-art campuses globally

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Google has opened its new campus, Ananta (meaning limitless in Sanskrit), in Bengaluru.
Economy and Finance

Google to set up its fifth Safety Engineering Centre in Hyderabad, signs agreement with Telangana government

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Technology giant Google is all set to establish a Safety Engineering Centre (GSEC) in Hyderabad soon, which will be second in Asia and fifth one globally
News Reports

Court in Russia hits Google with mind-boggling fine of 2 Undecillion Rubles, a number with 36 zeros, for banning Russian media outlets

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A court in Russia has ordered Google to pay an astronomical amount of 2 undecillion Rubles, or around 20 decillion USD for blocking several media outlets.
News Reports

Apple ordered to pay €13 billion and Google fined €2.4 billion by EU Court of Justice in separate cases: Know details

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The European Court of Justice fined Apple €13 billion for back taxes in Ireland and Google €2.4 billion for market abuse, marking significant steps in regulating tech giants in the EU.
News Reports

‘Yes, your smartphones are listening to conversations’: Facebook, Google partner admits that microphones are used for targeted ads without knowledge of users

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Cox Media Group admitted during a pitch deck to investors that its "Active Listening" software uses Artificial Intelligence to "capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations." The company explained that voice data can then be paired with behavioural data to target in-market customers for ads.
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