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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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Google agrees to settle $5 billion lawsuit, which accused the tech giant of tracking user data in ‘Incognito mode’

OpIndia Staff - 30 December, 2023

The $5 billion lawsuit was filed in 2020 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and covered "millions" of Google consumers, claiming damages of $5,000 per user or three times actual damages, depending on what was greater.

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Google launches Gemini, its ‘largest and most capable AI model’

ANI - 7 December, 2023

Google's Gemini model outperformed rival AI models in testing across more than two dozen benchmarks commonly used by AI researchers to evaluate an algorithm's reading comprehension, mathematical ability, and multistep reasoning skills, the company said.

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Is Google Bard censoring OpIndia? Union Minister warns against search bias to Alphabet Co, says it violates Indian law

Anurag - 16 November, 2023

Google Bard is potentially biased against OpIndia reports, as it refuses to summarise OpIndia reports giving various excuses

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Not just news, it is a geopolitical statement: Anand Mahindra on Google building its largest campus outside the US in Hyderabad

OpIndia Staff - 9 November, 2023

Anand Mahindra termed Google building its largest office outside US in Hyderabad as "geopolitical statement."

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Pixel smartphones will be made in India soon, announces Google at ‘Google for India 2023’ event

ANI - 19 October, 2023

Alphabet Inc will manufacture its Pixel smartphones in India, the company announced on Thursday at the 'Google for India 2023'

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Google to remove Canadian news content from search after Trudeau govt passes Bill C-18 Online News Act

ANI - 30 June, 2023

He further added, "We're disappointed it has come to this. We don't take this decision or its impacts lightly and believe it's important to be transparent with Canadian publishers and our users as early as possible."

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Google announces $10 billion investment in India’s digitisation fund, to boos the country’s digitisation drive and fintech potential

OpIndia Staff - 24 June, 2023

Google revealed plans to establish its global fintech operation centre in Gandhinagar's Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT).

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Google parent Alphabet loses $100 billion market value after it’s AI chatbot ‘Bard’ gives wrong answer in an advertisement

OpIndia Staff - 9 February, 2023

The internet giant tweeted a brief GIF clip of Bard in action, portraying the chatbot as a "launchpad for curiosity" that would help clarify difficult subjects. However, hours before the Bard launch event in Paris, Bard gave an incorrect response. The mistake was first pointed out by Reuters.

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