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Google

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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CBI approaches Google, Facebook to retrieve deleted chats and mails of Sushant Singh Rajput to investigate actor’s death

OpIndia Staff - 8 November, 2021

CBI has approached Google and Facebook requesting support in recovering deleted data of Sushant Singh Rajput.

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Yahoo pulls out of China citing ‘challenging’ environment, soon after new data protection law came into effect

OpIndia Staff - 3 November, 2021

Yahoo’s departure from coincides with the implementation of a new data privacy law that grants sweeping authority to officials to access personal information collected by tech firms.

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Facebook Inc to rename the company to signify that it is no longer a one-app entity

OpIndia Staff - 20 October, 2021

After Google Inc renamed to Alphabet Inc, Facebook Inc to adopt a new name to separate it from the various services it runs

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Google India found guilty of stifling competition and innovation in probe by Competition Commission of India

OpIndia Staff - 18 September, 2021

Google India found guilty of adopting anti-competitive, unfair and restrictive trade practices in mobile operating system and related markets

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Google launches news startup in partnership with an outfit whose VC is accused of money laundering and has ties to Urban Naxal Gautam Navlakha

K Bhattacharjee - 13 September, 2021

Google has launched the Google News Initiative (GNI) Startups Lab India in partnership with the Digipub News India Foundation.

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Google rolls out ‘pay calculator’, employees who work from home may suffer salary cuts due to reduced living expenses

OpIndia Staff - 11 August, 2021

Google has developed a new internal calculator to explain potential salary cuts to its employees who choose to work remotely.

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Former Roadies and Big Boss winner Ashutosh wants ‘right to be forgotten’, moves Delhi HC

OpIndia Staff - 23 July, 2021

In 2009, Kaushik was arrested for allegedly driving in an inebriated state and for not wearing a helmet and once again made the headlines in 2013 for being involved in an altercation at a cafe in Mumbai.

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Google Trends show declining interest in atheism over time: Here’s where India stands

OpIndia Staff - 14 July, 2021

India saw significant spike in the number of Google searches involving atheism in early 2000s but the trend is on the ebb.

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Donald Trump sues Twitter, Facebook and Google

OpIndia Staff - 8 July, 2021

“We’re demanding an end to the shadow-banning, a stop to the silencing and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing and canceling that you know so well,” said Trump while addressing the media.

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