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[ad_1] Alphabet Inc.'s Google considered creating a more private way to search the internet that wouldn't track the sites users visited, according to testimony from a senior vice president in the government's landmark antitrust case against the company.The year was 2019 and Google was in defense mode as tech companies dealt with the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the personal data of as many as 87 million Facebook users was secretly scraped and mined for voter insights. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. Google ultimately rejected the idea, according to testimony from Prabhakar Raghavan, a senior vice president at the company. In part, that was because of how a so-called Incognito Google could hurt the company's advertising revenue. “One of the concerns was i...

[ad_1] Google's top search executive said concerns about Amazon.com Inc. keep him awake at night as the company loses users to the online retail giant and newer apps such as ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok.Testifying as part of the Justice Department's antitrust case against Google Thursday, Prabhakar Raghavan, a Google senior vice president, said young people in particular are using apps such as TikTok and Meta Platforms Inc.'s Instagram and WhatsApp, where they spend an average of four hours per day. “I feel a keen sense not to become the next roadkill,” said Raghavan, one of the first employees the Alphabet Inc. unit has called in its defense. For young people, “Grandpa Google knows the answer and will help you with homework. But when it comes to doing interesting things, they like to start ...

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Google Mulled Building Private Search in Wake of Tech Scandal

Google Search Executive Worried About Amazon, TikTok Enticing Users