Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who infamously lied to Congress about Google’s “manual” interventions with user search results, will reportedly take Page’s former role, making him the CEO of both Google and Alphabet at the same time.
While Page and Brin will stay on as shareholders and members of Alphabet’s Board of Directors, Pichai will be the new head of, well, everything related to Google. But this doesn’t necessarily clear Page and Brin of running what critics claim is “top-down control” over Google search results, and specifically political search results.
Most recently, Google announced that it would be banning upwards of 300 different advertisements put out by the Donald Trump campaign for the 2020 presidency, claiming that the ads violate its internal policies. The Trump campaign has publicly responded by claiming that Google is “muzzling” political speech to thwart the upcoming election.
In their departure letter, Page and Brin admitted that Google is not a “conventional company,” adding that Google’s “evolution as a privately held company” means that Google has had to be managed “differently.”
They still insist, however, just as Pichai does, that Google provides “unbiased, accurate and free access to information for those who rely on us all around the world.”...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...
