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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, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Wednesday August 29 2018, @06:21AM (3 children)
I don't believe Google at all AND I think Trump gets a ton of negative press -- way beyond normal. I don't like Trump, I didn't vote for him, and won't vote for him in the future, but the sheer volume of negativity in the press toward him has really turned me off to the press -- there's so much hyperbole that anything real gets drowned out by the magnitude of the hate directed against him when in actual fact, what would have changed if HRC had been president? The NSA would still be collecting our calls, GITMO would still be open, we'd still be bombing random people (maybe even more random people because Democrats wouldn't care and wouldn't protest (see entirety of Obama's term)), banks and Wall St. would still be getting sweetheart deals -- nothing would be any different in any real way except perhaps for Twitter. Oh and we'd have another unfair free trade deal to gut more jobs.
Anyway, I can't imagine I'm the only person who sees this level of wolf-crying in the media and just tune it out, and I'm pretty far left. I can only imagine that this constant drumbeat makes people who like Trump feel motivated to vote for him and may be moving fence sitters into his camp, if only out of sympathy. The only people the deluge really speaks to is partisan Democrats, and toward them, I have zero respect. Their silence when Obama did a GWB 2.0 presidency was disgusting. But maybe they think they'll get the numbers next time around if the keep up the negativity -- good luck without me. I won't be voting for any Democrats either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @07:20AM (1 child)
A long time ago, a classmate and I were discussing preferred presidential qualities he asked me if it was better to have a well liked or hated leader.
His point was Hitler was well liked.
I thought it a very interesting question I'd not considered before.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday August 29 2018, @01:36PM
Well liked at first. Later people may have been fearful to not show a pretense of party loyalty.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @01:44PM
Yep, somehow the press has made themselves more disliked and distrusted than any politician could ever be. The default heuristic is "whatever the news says is bad is probably good" for more and more people at this point. I've thought that way and acted on it for years (to great personal profit), but now its becoming mainstream due to their shrill anti-trump campaign.