Sundar Pichai
Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google to face antitrust scrutiny starting tomorrow
Tech companies are increasingly facing antitrust criticism and the hearings are about to kick off this week.
Leaked documents suggest that 1,000+ employees pressured Google to block Breitbart News from its ad network
This is the latest in a series of leaks highlighting Google’s anti-conservative bias.
Google CEO lied to congress about search manipulation, former Google engineer says
The former Google engineer Mike Wacker says that various investigative reports and statements from Google engineers show that Pichai’s past statements to Congress are not true.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai fails to answer question about anti-conservative bias
Instead he passed the question on to VP of public policy, Kent Walker.
Leaked documents reportedly show that Google blacklists Breitbart News, The Gateway Pundit, and others from some of its search results
This is yet another example of Google manually manipulating its search results.
In the face of censorship complaints, Google’s CEO weighs in on YouTube moderation, calls it “a hard societal problem”
YouTube is currently facing harsh criticism for its censorship and demonetization of its creators.
Revealed: It appears Google is sharing payment data with 3rd parties by default, and the opt-out setting is deceptively hard to find
This goes against everything Google’s been saying about privacy lately.
Google will add podcasts to search results later this year
This could encourage users to listen to their podcasts directly in Google Search and lead to more invasive tracking of their podcast listening habits.
Google manually manipulates its search results, new report shows
The policy will prohibit pages with single answers to search inquiries taken directly from the open web.
Google is reportedly still working on its censored Chinese search engine Project Dragonfly
Internal Google sources have said that the company is performing closed performance reviews of Project Dragonfly and that management has committed to keeping the project secret.