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Can we trust Google?
In August this year, a US court in Washington DC ruled that Google acted illegally to crush its competition and maintain a monopoly on online search and related advertising. This is just one of a number of lawsuits that have been filed against the big tech companies, as US antitrust authorities attempt to strengthen competition in the industry.
Now Google is facing another legal case in Virginia, USA, over its advertising technology. Whilst in Europe it has been fined billions in monopoly cases.
Google themselves dispute they are a ‘monopolist’ and presented evidence in the US court case in August to show that they face ‘fierce competition from a broad range of competitors’. The court did find Google’s search to be ‘superior’ to its competitors. And Google’s executives say consumers stick with them because they find Google ‘helpful’.
Google is everywhere in our online lives and it handles billions of search queries every day, so on this week’s Inquiry, we’re asking ‘Can we trust Google?’
Contributors:
David Vise, Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist and Author of ‘The Google Story’, New York, USA
Professor Douglas Melamed, Visiting Fellow, Stanford Law School, Washington, DC. USA
Jonathan Stray, Senior Scientist, UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI, California, USA
Cristina Caffarra, Independent Expert Economist, Honorary Professor, UCL, London, UK
Presenter: David Baker
Producer: Jill Collins
Researcher: Matt Toulson
Editor: Tara McDermott
Technical Producer: Nicky Edwards
Broadcast Co-ordinator: Jacqui Johnson
Image Credit: Reuters/Steve Marcus
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In August this year, a US court in Washington DC ruled that Google acted illegally to crush its competition and maintain a monopoly on online search and related advertising. This is just one of a number of lawsuits that have been filed against the big tech companies, as US antitrust authorities attempt to strengthen competition in the industry.
Now Google is facing another legal case in Virginia, USA, over its advertising technology. Whilst in Europe it has been fined billions in monopoly cases.
Google themselves dispute they are a ‘monopolist’ and presented evidence in the US court case in August to show that they face ‘fierce competition from a broad range of competitors’. The court did find Google’s search to be ‘superior’ to its competitors. And Google’s executives say consumers stick with them because they find Google ‘helpful’.
Google is everywhere in our online lives and it handles billions of search queries every day, so on this week’s Inquiry, we’re asking ‘Can we trust Google?’
Contributors:
David Vise, Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist and Author of ‘The Google Story’, New York, USA
Professor Douglas Melamed, Visiting Fellow, Stanford Law School, Washington, DC. USA
Jonathan Stray, Senior Scientist, UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI, California, USA
Cristina Caffarra, Independent Expert Economist, Honorary Professor, UCL, London, UK
Presenter: David Baker
Producer: Jill Collins
Researcher: Matt Toulson
Editor: Tara McDermott
Technical Producer: Nicky Edwards
Broadcast Co-ordinator: Jacqui Johnson
Image Credit: Reuters/Steve Marcus
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