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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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What will Elon Musk do if Twitter is banned by Google and Apple? Launch his own smartphone? Read what he said

OpIndia Staff - 26 November, 2022

Elon Musk hinted launching his own smartphone, operating system in the 'unlikely' event that Google, Apple Inc. remove Twitter

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CCI slaps fresh fine of Rs 936.44 crore on Google exploiting dominance, misusing Play Store policies to drive out competition

OpIndia Staff - 26 October, 2022

According to the findings of the CCI, Google is dominant in the market for licensable OS for smart mobile devices and app stores for Android smart mobile OS in India.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes down a Pakistani troll asking him to watch the “first three overs” of India-Pakistan match at T20 WC

OpIndia Staff - 24 October, 2022

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday tweeted that he celebrated Diwali by watching last three overs of match again.

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Google slapped fine of Rs 1,338 Crores by Competition Commission of India for abusing Android platform: Details

OpIndia Staff - 21 October, 2022

Google was ordered to quit using unethical business tactics by the Competition Commission of India.

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‘Modi planning to demolish Ajmer Dargah’: The kind of news YouTube allowed to be monetized, govt action raises the question if Google should take...

Anurag - 18 August, 2022

Banned channels were monetized that means both the creators and Google were making money from fake and misleading content.

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‘Total BS’: Elon Musk reacts to reports that he had an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s wife leading to their divorce

OpIndia Staff - 25 July, 2022

Billionaires Elon Musk and Sergey Brin are long-term friends, with Brin even helping out Musk with $500,000 to keep Tesla afloat at the peak of the financial crisis in 2008.

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Goodbye IE, welcome Edge: Here’s why Microsoft decided to retire the Internet Explorer, the Gen X browser

Siddhi Somani - 17 June, 2022

The beginning of Chrome and Firefox had already initiated the demise of IE. Realizing that IE could not compete with Chrome, Microsoft introduced Edge in 2015.

Google canceled a talk by anti-Brahmin ‘activist’ for creating divisions among their workforce, Washington Post insinuates Sundar Pichai’s caste could be the reason

Dibakar Dutta - 3 June, 2022

In November 2021, Thenmozhi Soundararajan had targeted Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal as well over caste, clamiing that Brahmin cis-men are taking over Silicon Valley.

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Sanskrit added to Google translate, Assamese, Maithili, Konkani, Mizo, Dogri, Meiteilon, and Bhojpuri among other Indian languages in the new list

OpIndia Staff - 12 May, 2022

Along with Sanskrit, the newly added 24 languages include other Indian languages such as Assamese, Maithili, Konkani, Mizo, Dogri, Meiteilon which is Manipuri, and Bhojpuri.

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