Talk:Criticism of Google

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Do I need permission to add content to this article?

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Do I? It appears that I do. Are editors no longer assuming good faith about my edits?
What about utilizing a CNN source to write about conservatives criticism of about the firing of James Damore.
What about criticism published in Newsweek and the Independent about calling Repubicans Nazis?
What about Trump and conservatives criticsm of Google and alleged result rigging published in The Hill?
What about criticism published in National Review about Google being a monopoly?
What about a claim of political censorship published in the Washington Post, this other claim published in BuzzFeed News, and this criticism published in U.S. News & World Report written by Robert Epstein?
What about this criticism published in ArsTechnica, of both left leaning and right leaning growth of distrust of Google?--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:45, 11 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hi, RCLC! You are asking many questions, but I suggest you make a few additions to the article & see if they survive WP:Bold, revert, discuss. Yours, BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 06:01, 29 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

quality of searches.

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can we add a section to the article addressing the fact that searching the web via google just plain sucks now? i mean, it’s complete garbage as a search engine, the one thing that it was made for and once did so well back in the good-old days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.111.167.134 (talk) 05:18, 28 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

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YouTube has seen heavy criticism from YouTubers for not intervening in false copyright claims. For example, TheFatRat has tweeted that a company unaffiliated with him has copyrighted his own original song. Others like SiivaGunner have seen their channel terminated due to companies ignoring Fair Use. Some YouTubers have seen companies hold their channel for ransom. As I use Wikipedia on a school computer, can someone find sources for this? ruuuka (talk) 20:40, 1 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Google has always showed a fake large figure as the number of results

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Search any thing and go deep for the last pages, you'll see that Google is showing for example only 300 results for what it claimed to be about 5 million results at the first page. More on this here https://searchengineland.com/why-google-cant-count-results-properly-53559 This has been a strategy to deceive users about it having a huge database and overtake other rivals from the early days.

Outdated passages

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A very large proportion of this article concerns issues and events prior to 2014, many of which have been completely resolved (some of which say so) but some of which are ongoing with much more recent sources available (e.g. YouTube fair use issues.) I am inclined to create Hisory of Google criticism and move all the obsolete portions without contemporary updates there. Also the intro and WP:SUMMARY in the main Google#Criticism and controversy article are just as bad. EllenCT (talk) 23:57, 26 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Implicit Propaganda

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The article contains the passage "to authoritarian regimes like Venezuela, Ethiopia, and Pakistan." I won't vouch for Ethiopia or Pakistan, but Venezuela is not "an authoritarian regime" just because it suits U. S. Foreign Policy objectives to claim so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:410:200:2C80:B46A:8AB5:C8DD:8B2 (talk) 07:14, 10 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

Explicit, was WP:OR not supported by the source. removed --PaulT2022 (talk) 23:56, 14 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Project Jedi Blue

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https://mlexmarketinsight.com/news-hub/editors-picks/area-of-expertise/antitrust/google-acknowledges-it-foresaw-possibility-of-probe-of-jedi-blue-advertising-deal-with-facebook 107.242.121.47 (talk) 07:33, 27 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

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Google Local Guides

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I would add that I am puzzled at the paucity of criticism of the Google Local Guides program. There are bits here and there that surface when one searches using Google… and then suddenly disappear… odd. Almost as if they had been suppressed... The Local Guides program is exploitative and often bogus. 121.44.29.224 (talk) 10:16, 28 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Addition of Youtube Bots to Youtube Comments.

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More recently, many bots have been roaming the comment sections of Youtube. They either contain Explicit Content or Scams. If they can't be mentioned here, they should at least be mentioned in the Wikipedia page for Youtube. Wikibrowser30 (talk) 12:55, 27 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Do you have a reliable source that discusses that? InfiniteNexus (talk) 06:40, 28 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Censorship of Google Maps Reviews

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The criminal Google Admins massively censor Reviews of Locations, like shops, doctors, bars etc. As soon as you dont obey the mainstream opinion (i.e. review negatively), that is mostly faked by the location owner, you get deleted and silenced. Corruption makes this feature the opposite of what people think it is. It just a promotion tool for restaurants, clubs, doctors, supermarkets but doesnt allow your honest opinion and spookily read every text before it will mostly not published and allows flagging for a billion reasons (most ridiculous: bad words like a*hole, c*nt), but not, the really only important, for posting a blatant lie. The owner has always right, the reviewer will be deleted for no reason. I dont like to be censored by an a*hole for telling the truth to people in calling him that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:DC:CF08:4E00:5695:A02F:1234:258B (talk) 12:03, 6 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

There aren't any admins in Google Maps, just an (admittedly crummy) algorithm. Are there any sources talking about it? Tavantius (talk) 15:42, 25 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

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