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The Trump administration is "taking a look" at whether Google and its search engine should be regulated by the government, Larry Kudlow, President Trump's economic adviser, said Tuesday outside the White House.
"We'll let you know," Kudlow said. "We're taking a look at it."
The announcement puts the search giant squarely in the White House's crosshairs amid wider allegations against the tech industry that it systematically discriminates against conservatives on social media and other platforms.
Kudlow's remark to reporters came hours after Trump fired off a series of predawn tweets complaining about Google search results for "Trump News."
[...] Google, in a statement, said its searches aren't politically biased: "When users type queries into the Google Search bar, our goal is to make sure they receive the most relevant answers in a matter of seconds. Search is not used to set a political agenda and we don't bias our results toward any political ideology.
"Every year, we issue hundreds of improvements to our algorithms to ensure they surface high-quality content in response to users' queries," Google said. "We continually work to improve Google Search and we never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment."
The White House has not responded to requests for further comment.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by corey on Tuesday August 28 2018, @11:58PM (8 children)
But so much for small government, free market etc. Oh but not when they say bad things about us.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday August 29 2018, @12:29AM
The Truth.
but not when they say the truth about us.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @12:44AM (1 child)
Governments acting against cartels is one of the core tenets of the free market.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Wednesday August 29 2018, @12:47AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvZP93XqyTw [youtube.com]
>Who you gonna call?
>TRUST BUSTERS!
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Wednesday August 29 2018, @06:26AM (4 children)
The problem with monopolies is that the free-market canon stops being valid, and for whatever little search engines there are nibling around the edges, google is very much a monopoly. http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share [statcounter.com]
(Score: 2) by suburbanitemediocrity on Wednesday August 29 2018, @07:24AM
Does this apply to the Microsoft, AT&T, IBM?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 29 2018, @10:39AM (2 children)
You can't have a search engine monopoly. The cost of entry is incredibly low. At the end of the day, Google got where they are by doing web search extremely well. If they stop doing it well or someone starts doing it better, Google will lose their search crown.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @05:56PM (1 child)
I read this comment elsewhere and the last bit just screamed "you".
You distance yourself from the worst of the conservative bullshit but at the same time defend them and play the equivocator. Grow up Peter!
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 29 2018, @09:13PM
Honey, sweety, darlin, the only way I'm on the right is if you're standing so far left that you can't even see the origin point with a telescope. Take a deep and thorough internal look and reassess your shit.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.