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: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 29 2018, @01:07AM (5 children)
Never doubt the balls of a completely unaccountable entity.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Touché) by captain normal on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:38AM (4 children)
I'm confused about what you just said. Are you talking about Trump or Google?
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 29 2018, @03:35AM (3 children)
Trump's accountable both to the law (in theory) and to the voters if he wants another term. Google isn't ever unless something affects their share price.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Wednesday August 29 2018, @11:49AM
See? See? You see now what a Walmart sense-of-humor does to you?
Better go and get one from your local farmers market, at least it'll be an organic free range all-American one.
Errr... ooops, I keep forgetting that sarcasm impairment so endemic in that geo areal. YMMV
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @05:01PM (1 child)
You sound like you are comaining. That usually imies a desired "fix" to the problem you are having. Is that a correct statement of your position?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 29 2018, @05:38PM
Going with "complaining" and "implies" as guesses for pulling some sort of meaning from that comment.
Yes. My desired fix is for someone to come along and do a better job than Google does for long enough that Google's search traffic drops to Lycos levels.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.