The US v. Google antitrust case may be frustratingly shrouded in secrecy, but occasionally we get some fun nuggets. The quote above comes from an internal email sent by Google’s Jim Kolotouros, VP of Android Platform Partnerships. “Chrome exists to serve Google search,” he writes. “If it cannot do that because it is regulated to be set by the user, the value of users using Chrome goes to almost zero (for me).”
  • blitzkriegEnglish
    519·
    1 year ago

    Didn’t they suppress Russian related search results?

      • Rose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        Your understanding of the troll factories is quite off. According to the ex-employees and the publicly available social media accounts data, the average troll paid by the Russian government is someone who poses as a person living in the West and even uses some Western talking points, making them hard to distinguish from a real person. They also get people in the West out to protest for BLM and guns rights, for and against immigration, and other causes with the goal of facilitating discord, which then creates headlines in the Western media, not Russia Today as you’d expect.

      • blitzkriegEnglish
        721·
        1 year ago

        So, you’re okay with being under the control of a company only showing you what they want.

          • blitzkriegEnglish
            520·
            1 year ago

            So, you are okay with your search provider deciding what is misinformation and what is not.

            Seems like a slippery slope to me.

            • Skeezix@lemmy.worldEnglish
              14·
              1 year ago

              As long as they’re objectively deciding then yes. There really isn’t a decision to be made; information is either misinformation or not misinformation. There is no grey area for subjectivity. There is no room for opinion or interpretation. As long as they maintain a track record of being objective then it’s good.

              • JokeDeityEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                That’s really the key here. For a good long while Google was well respected and known for doing good for people, it’s up to us to jump ship when a company shows all the signs of being evil villains. We just have to remember not to be blindly allegiant to any companies. DDG could certainly become evil down the line, but so far I think they’re doing an alright job.