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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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Social Media

The Left attacks Facebook’s Ankhi Das for personal political preference but justifies when Twitter and Google actively discriminates against the non-Left

K Bhattacharjee - 31 August, 2020

The liberal brigade is up in arms against Ankhi Das of Facebook again for her apparent bias in favour of the ruling dispensation.

News Reports

Before death, Sushant Singh googled properties in Himachal, Kerala and Coorg, not ‘painless death’, as claimed by Mumbai Police: Report

OpIndia Staff - 29 August, 2020

Mumbai Police Commissioner had claimed that the actor Sushant Singh Rajput had searched for words like 'painless death', 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' before his death

Opinions

Is India next? Google CEO fumbles when questioned about influencing search result to favour Democratic candidate, USA RW website alleges bias

OpIndia Staff - 31 July, 2020

Republican Representative from Ohio, Jim Jordan, asserted that "Big Tech's out to get Conservatives."

News Reports

Google search result shows that the cause of terrorist Ajmal Kasab’s death was suicide

OpIndia Staff - 22 July, 2020

If one searches forthe phrase “Ajmal Kasab death” on Google, the search result wrongly shows suicide as the cause

News Reports

Tech-giant Google to invest 4.5 billion USD in Reliance Jio, to jointly develop operating system for affordable, entry-level 4G/5G smartphones

OpIndia Staff - 15 July, 2020

Mukesh Ambani, the Chairman of RIL on Wednesday confirmed that Google will invest over Rs 33,737 crore for a 7.7 per cent stake in Jio Platforms taking the string of investments well over Rs 1,52,000 crore.

News Reports

Google to join hands with Prasar Bharati for edutainment series to help business owners amid Covid-19

OpIndia Staff - 14 July, 2020

Google and Prasar Bharati to bring edutainment series for small businesses amid Covid-19 pandemic

News Reports

Google head Sundar Pichai, who studied at IIT Kharagpur, is all set to bring a digital revolution worth Rs 75,000 crore in India: Read...

OpIndia Staff - 13 July, 2020

Google, headed by Sundar Pichai, pitches in to help bring about a digital revolution in India

News Reports

TikTok banned – The process of banning apps and why is it not the end of the road for users making money on the...

Anurag - 2 July, 2020

How ban on apps is imposed on the internet and why ban on TikTok is not the end of the career of people who made money making videos

News Reports

Searching porn in incognito? Google is possibly recording you, and now it has been sued for $5 billion

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

Google has been slapped with a lawsuit seeking $5 billion, accusing the search giant of privacy infringements by tracking internet activity of users using browser in the 'private or incognito' mode

News Reports

Google removes ‘Mitron’ and ‘Remove China Apps’ from Google Play store on all Android devices over ‘policy violation’

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

The apps had gained popularity in the country at a time when there is a rising anti-China sentiment among many citizens as tensions between two countries has escalated in recent days over the border stand-off.

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