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Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho
Google has some extremely useful products, but its political bias is nothing new.
This is a pretty long interview with the fired Google engineer James Damore (his ultimate sin was to mention that men and women are different, he was fired on the spot).
If anyone has time to listen to this in the background etc. it's rather interesting:
There's many examples that you can verify on your own in real time where you see the bias right away.
Different search results for Google.com "american inventors" and google.es "inventor americano" being the least harmful of those.
Then again, I am sure many will be fine with a company that has a practical monopoly on the internet information utilizing political bias, even using (largely discredited) private organizations such as SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) and ADL (Anti Defamation league) in order to "filter" their search results (or manually modify them). As long as it benefits their team.
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As with any job, when you become more of a liability than a asset, you soon hit the streets in search of new job !
He could have said many other things that would make himself just as much a liability.
But I still would like to see them (google) broken-up as well as some others.
Even BANKS, Hospitals, Insurance Co's & cable co's, Airlines and just about everyone else that has had a bunch of merger and acquisition in the last 20 years..