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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

Gmail, YouTube down: Netizens worldwide cannot access Google services

OpIndia Staff - 14 December, 2020

Google, Gmail, YouTube and some other Google services are down in multiple countries.

News Reports

Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu claims Google and WhatsApp will buy wheat and hoard it to exploit farmers under new farm laws

OpIndia Staff - 3 December, 2020

On Thursday, the Congress MP from Ludhiana - Punjab Ravneet Singh Bittu spoke to NDTV India in connection with the ongoing farmer protests along the Delhi border.

News Reports

After Twitter, Amazon’s Alexa now claims Jammu and Kashmir is part of China, netizens fume

OpIndia Staff - 24 October, 2020

As per reports, Alexa uses a machine-learning algorithm and more than a dozen 'question-answer techniques' to determine the best response to a user query.

News Reports

Paytm and other Indian tech companies mull steps to take on Google over alleged ‘unfair practices’: Report

OpIndia Staff - 4 October, 2020

PayTm and other Indian startups are coming together to take on global tech giant Google for alleged unfair practices.

News Reports

Google to block ads for content in Punjabi, Odia, Assamese and several other Indian languages, will hurt startups and media industry

OpIndia Staff - 1 October, 2020

Many revenue earning options depend on what Google decides. Small and medium publishers have simply no option but to depend on google for their earnings

Entertainment

Google’s doodle tribute to iconic actress Zohra Sehgal with a typo leaves netizens bewildered

OpIndia Staff - 29 September, 2020

On this day in 1946, film Neecha Nagar starring Zohra Sehgal was released at Cannes where it won the Palm d'Or.

News Reports

Paytm and Paytm First Fantasy Game apps removed from Google Play Store for alleged violation of gambling policy

OpIndia Staff - 18 September, 2020

Google Play store prohibits online casinos and unregulated gambling activities which the Paytm promoted through its Paytm First Games.

Social Media

The Left attacks Facebook’s Ankhi Das for personal political preference but justifies when Twitter and Google actively discriminates against the non-Left

K Bhattacharjee - 31 August, 2020

The liberal brigade is up in arms against Ankhi Das of Facebook again for her apparent bias in favour of the ruling dispensation.

News Reports

Before death, Sushant Singh googled properties in Himachal, Kerala and Coorg, not ‘painless death’, as claimed by Mumbai Police: Report

OpIndia Staff - 29 August, 2020

Mumbai Police Commissioner had claimed that the actor Sushant Singh Rajput had searched for words like 'painless death', 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' before his death

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