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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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Opinions

Time to act against a threat that can’t be ignored: Here is how Chinese TikTok poses a threat to Indian sovereignty and national security

K Bhattacharjee - 28 August, 2019

The privacy policies of TikTok are a matter of concern considering the fact that user information can be accessed by the Chinese government and that, could be a threat to national security.

Opinions

If you believe Google trends, this election is a runaway win for Modi

Abhishek Banerjee - 24 April, 2019

It’s fairly clear: Congress hasn’t managed to get its message out. If you ask Google Trends, this election is over. The writing is on the wall. PM Narendra Modi is all set to win

News Reports

Leaked Google documents reveal aggressive ‘news blacklist’ and manual manipulation of right wing sites

OpIndia Staff - 10 April, 2019

Google has denied the allegations of manually manipulating the search results.

Media

Media mistakes satirical comments for actual one while reporting downrating of MS Excel by ‘patriotic protestors’

OpIndia Staff - 13 March, 2019

Media houses yet again do not let rationality get into the way of pushing a narrative

News Reports

‘Mandir Yahi Banega’ marker appears on Google Maps, tech giant rushes to fix the ‘issue’

OpIndia Staff - 1 December, 2018

When users searched for Ram Janambhoomi on one of the most widely used apps on the internet, "Mandir yahi banega" appeared as a point of interest, close to the birthplace of Shri Ram.

Media