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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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‘We definitely messed up’: Says Google co-founder Sergei Brin on Gemini AI fiasco, people notice man wearing bizarre ‘naked woman’ shirt

OpIndia Staff - 3 March, 2024

While Google co-founder Sergei Brin admitted they messed up with Gemini AI, people noticed shirt of a man that asked the question, which had full body print of a naked woman

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Google reverses its decision, agrees to restore Indian apps after IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw’s intervention

OpIndia Staff - 2 March, 2024

Google reversed its earlier decision and agreed to restore the Indian apps removed from the Play Store over a dispute regarding the service fees.

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Rahul Gandhi blabbers about networks, Iraq when asked about AI: Here is what Annamalai said on the tech, its effects & future

Shraddha Pandey - 1 March, 2024

While Congress’ lifetime Prime Ministerial candidate launched a clueless rant when asked about artificial intelligence, a similar question was posed before BJP’s popular leader K Annamalai whose sensible and visionary response left the audience impressed.

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‘Sorry unreliable’ does not exempt one from law – Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar hits out at Google for ‘malicious’ responses in Gemini AI

OpIndia Staff - 25 February, 2024

Union Minister warned Google not to use Indian DigitalNagriks for experimental unreliable platforms like Gemini AI.

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Gemini AI behaves Woke Max Pro: Google apologises after users highlight chatbot’s refusal to acknowledge existence of ‘White’ people

Anurag - 22 February, 2024

Google chatbot failed to generate images of persons of White ethnicity

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Google joins Apple in pulling major crypto exchange apps from Play Store in India after govt flagged them for operating illegally in the country

OpIndia Staff - 14 January, 2024

Google and Apple removed nine crypto exchanges from play store after govt of India took a series of regulatory measures targeting the cryptocurrency sector.

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Viral photographs of PM Modi in Lakshadweep cause huge jump in people searching for more information on the islands and snorkelling

OpIndia Staff - 4 January, 2024

PM Modi shares photos of snorkelling in Lakshadweep, causes huge jump in Google searches for the terms

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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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