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posted by Snow on Tuesday August 28 2018, @11:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the ministry-of-truth dept.

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.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/28/trump-wakes-up-googles-himself-and-doesnt-like-what-he-sees-illegal/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:15PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:15PM (#727826)

    I remember around the 2012 elections there was some vote at a DNC meeting about amending their position statement or some such to have some pro-israel section. There was a voice vote and the nays clearly were louder and more plentiful than the yays. So the guy at the podium said "well, lets try that again". The results were the same. Then he said "the yays have it" and that was that.

    It seemed quite strange to me because I doubt many people cared either way about whatever that issue was.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @02:26PM (#727831)