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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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News Reports

The blatantly Hinduphobic definition of ‘co-religionist’ on Google – Who do we blame and how do we fix it

OpIndia Staff - 8 May, 2020

The sentence that is thrown up by Google to understand the term 'co-religionist' in reference to context reads, "Hindu fundamentalists are admired by many of their co-religionists as virtuous people".

News Reports

After Bois Locker Room controversy, Jadavpur University students accused of sharing nudes of women through Google Drive

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2020

Hours after the controversial 'Bois Locker Room' Instagram group came to light, similar allegations were levelled on a group of men from Kolkata who are former students of Jadavpur University.

News Reports

Escaping quarantine, lying, and demanding luxury treatment: Amid Coronavirus outbreak, recklessness of individuals puts larger population at risk

Shashank Bharadwaj - 14 March, 2020

Two persons with suspected coronavirus infection, who had come from Italy to attend a wedding, refused to be quarantined in Nalagarh and fled to Zirakpur for the wedding. The officials had to engage security personnel to confine them in quarantine.