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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

Google says it won’t allow anti-Ukraine content to make money, removes ads from article talking about Nazi aspects of Azov Battalion

OpIndia Staff - 2 April, 2022

The tech giant has said that it will not show any ads on pages that has content that in their worldview ‘exploits, dismisses, or condones the war’

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Google Trends show more Indians are now wanting to know about the Kashmiri Hindu genocide: Here are the most searched keywords

OpIndia Staff - 24 March, 2022

The Kashmir Files seems to have touched a raw nerve, as Google searches on genocide of Kashmiri Pandits have increased

Media

Ukraine war: Russia bans Google News for ‘spreading disinformation’ weeks after Google blocks Russian media portals

OpIndia Staff - 24 March, 2022

Russia’s Interfax news agency said on Wednesday confirmed that Russia's communication regulator Roskomnadzor determined that the website "provided access to numerous publications and materials containing unreliable socially significant information about the course of a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine."

World

Russia bans Facebook and Instagram after court finds parent company Meta ‘extremist’

OpIndia Staff - 22 March, 2022

Russia had approached the court to declare Meta an extremist organization after it eased its hate speech policies to allow calls for violence against Russians on Facebook and Instagram.

Tech

Google Maps crashes, leaving billions directionless

OpIndia Staff - 18 March, 2022

Late on Thursday India time at around 9:30 PM, the most used navigation app, Google Maps crashed leaving all its users directionless.

News Reports

MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar calls for a ‘New Digital Law’ to replace the outdated IT Act 2000

OpIndia Staff - 17 February, 2022

Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrashekhar said that the need of the hour is to replace the outdated IT Act 2000 with a New digital law

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CCI set to investigate Google after digital news publishers allege abuse of dominance in ad revenue share

OpIndia Staff - 9 January, 2022

The Competition Commission of India will be setting up a probe against Google India after backlash from news portals demanding fair ad revenue share

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CBI approaches Google, Facebook to retrieve deleted chats and mails of Sushant Singh Rajput to investigate actor’s death

OpIndia Staff - 8 November, 2021

CBI has approached Google and Facebook requesting support in recovering deleted data of Sushant Singh Rajput.

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Yahoo pulls out of China citing ‘challenging’ environment, soon after new data protection law came into effect

OpIndia Staff - 3 November, 2021

Yahoo’s departure from coincides with the implementation of a new data privacy law that grants sweeping authority to officials to access personal information collected by tech firms.

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