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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 28 2018, @11:58PM (3 children)
Leaks from inside show the opposite. The search did at least get a slight clean-up for Trump within the past 24 hours... gee, I wonder why! Sunlight makes the cockroaches hide.
Oh, and of course on this very issue, Google reports on Google via leftist media sources including one that calls it a "conspiracy theory" in an attempt to bury the issue:
https://i.redd.it/5ax27zmmxwi11.png [i.redd.it]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Sulla on Wednesday August 29 2018, @12:19AM (1 child)
My preferred response in a situation like this would be "well then don't use facebook, twitter, google". While I think that fits for things like Windows vs Apple vs Linux, I am uncertain for how much that works for google. What are the options to not use google in the modern age. I suppose you can not use a phone with android, you can not use a chrome based browser, you can not use a website that runs ads, you can not drive certain cars, you can use a variant search engine... Maybe someday i can get the google piped into my house as a utility, but that would come with regulation.
So go make a google competitor and get fucked like all of the microsoft competition did.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by dry on Wednesday August 29 2018, @04:27AM
I mostly use DuckDuckGo, works on my phone, works on my computer and just now, looking at news on Donald Trump, not much is positive, unless the head of FIFA is a hero or you like censorship in the name of copyright enforcement and were pissed when America left the TPP with all its new IP shit.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:27AM
Final answer: Google's right to present the news as they see fit is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America which every President swears to uphold and protect.
Trump crossing his fingers behind his back while taking the oath doesn't make a damn bit of difference to the Supreme Court when they decide about this, and even the justices which Trump himself appointed aren't going to find in his favor on this one.
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