Google has been around with us now for 21 years, carrying out over 5.4 billion searches a day. It has influenced us in our search habits that we no longer just search for something — we Google it.
Over the 21 years of the search engine, Google has been the focus of several lawsuits, controversies, and accusations of misconduct, which range from tracking our movements, to mishandling advertisements, to spreading fake news.
Many of Google’s issues ultimately stem from its search engine, from the role it plays controlling our attention. Google, along with other tech companies and platforms, has helped to create the attention economy, in which we all have endless options and everyone involved is trying to profit from what we choose to spend our precious time on.
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