so google grew out of ph d. program at stanford right they have this affinity for academics they view themselves as academic a little bit in nature their campus looks like a college campus so google provides a ton of funding for academic institutions individual academics all around the world so we found something like $300.00 papers that were funded by google in some way that's a part of google's policy positions they like to say hey we have the country's foremost academic experts behind us and what they're not telling it the public is the fact that they're actually funding these so-called independent experts he's so hot independent academics where shows have time for congress about whether or not google is a monopoly she was relying on an academic study to bolster his point they didn't disclose at the paper with actually funded by google. are you concerned that your company has been exerting enormous power. kirby in ways that hurt many small businesses and local extremely good and well meaning small businesses

to get people on to google and off of google out into the open web as quickly as possible and largely they were really successful but that the success of google led to in many ways the success of the open web in this explosive growth in startups and innovation during that period google had developed this incredible technology called page rank unveiling what was known as the back row about algorithm and it was your sleeps and bounds ahead of services like yahoo altavista and quickly became the clear winner in the space just from a technology basis and what does is it spiders around the internet instead of being a directory service like yahoo was it's taking pictures of web pages and analyzing the links between the web pages and using that to make some assumptions about relevance and so if you're looking for some history of abraham lincoln and there's a bunch of links to cross the web pointing to a particular site that must mean that this page is the quote unquote most relevant . now they had to figure out how do we make money off this we've got an index how do we make money well they f

and then google see this is so google was saying no actually we're going to keep your data and we're going to organize a society we know how to improve an optimized world. there are a couple trends i think lead google off of its path. being the the place that just match people with the best information on the web and led them off into the internet and that was the birth of smartphones steve jobs unveiled the i phone in the rise of facebook and this notion that time spent on a site where users doing lots and lots of time on facebook became really important metrics that advertisers are paying attention to and so google's response was basically to deviate from that original eat those in becoming a place were they were trying to keep people on google so they very rapidly started to branch out into other areas they were getting a lot of information from people using the search engine but if people went directly to a website. that's bad because now google doesn't know that so they developed a browser which is now the most widely used to browse around the world chrome by getting people to u

google uses search results to steer outcomes to that which is favorable to google. if one side has perfect information and the other side only has information that the side with perfect information gives them. when you look at google, i would go to their philosophy of management is unlike anything we have seen. google -- there is a professor at harvard who has written a foundational back to called the age of surveillance capitalism. google is converting all human experience into data to eliminate uncertainty. but it means you are eliminating human choice. >> don't be evil. isn't that what it was supposed to be. >> it's very orwellian. >> what should we do about it? you laid out a good case that they are doing all these damaging things. they have have too much power. should we break them up? >> you need to do two things. anti-trust is half of the solution. i want to use the model of at&t. i want to take their patent for the foal yoas and make them licensable by technology companies. i want to prevent them from buying anything new. i want them to divest some of the th

and there's no way to do that because google doesn't share that information and because google wants to have its own information at the time for example travel so google is getting into the travel business and when any time you do a search it's going to give you google will put right at the top it's own travel findings for best results cheapest fares something that you know many of these troubled companies are trying to do was actually beat but still so to safeway so go ahead and jump in just like when i go to safeway i'm going to get a safeway razor. ok but really i'm going to show it really is going to be you know and i know you so hang on guys well you know obviously google is going to support its own products let me go to bill right now and it will punish any kind of competition that it sees as well i mean you can't have it both ways saying that your you're a search for the entire internet and then say we're going to punish people who reward these people are going to go to bill on that in london yeah but let me go to already seen let me go to bill who had been saying fines levele

you know i'm i'm in favor of google mostly because of the privacy issue google has more google has more data on people than the n.s.a. . than any government agency ever dreamed of. it has tracks you across every platform. is ubiquitous browser therefore if you are a lot fewer any company anywhere in the world you need to have a presence on chrome which grew arms and the only area that google really suffers from is in telephones but nevertheless you load a google app on your telephone which of course we all do because we all like to use g. mail or watch you tube there on the phone as well so this is a completely unbalanced scenario that needs to be to grow caught up as soon as possible and. let's go back to bill in london bill you know we have the we have the situation of 18 t. when they created they the baby bells ok and they competed against each other and they were actually at one point allowed to merge ok after they had been broken up and i want to speak to an issue that i'm sure ad will bring up but i'm going to mention it now the current owners of this let's say facebook and google

emily: phil harrison, google vice president. coming up, the rise of digital dissidents in china, how they are testing beijing's great firewall. we will discuss next, this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: the regime of china's president xi jinping is one of the most restrictive the internet has ever seen. beijing spends about $180 billion a year on surveillance and censorship tools like the great firewall. the controls are tested by a new group of tech savvy activists. bloomberg businessweek editor jeff muskus joins us. jeff: some like the folks at greatfire.org, a collection of activists that have been up and running since 2011, they do their best to provide a jumping off point for people who are in china and want to use -- either through browsing tools are or social media -- a different kind of site they don't normally have access to if they abide by the china rules of the road. but we also spoke with folks including laborers that may be planting trees and spraying pesticide, they are unlikely activists as it gets tougher and tougher t

the market is enormous tech giants like google and amazon get big slices of. but sold to less known kompany these are the data brokers. trading data is a lucrative market so-called data brokers gather personal data and enrich it with further information before trading huge databases. culled horno works for privacy international which is trying to make the data broker network more transparent. the reason most of us don't know data brokers is because we're not their customers with their product. data brokers gather data from numerous sources from public records at registration offices or sweepstakes or customer loyalty cards add to that the data on web surfing behavior provided by trackers or online profiles this tells them a user's name their address their chops but it also reveals what they like for instance what kind of music a person enjoys which series they watch and who they're friends with. axiom is one of the largest data brokers it compiles up to $10000.00 characteristics and attributes for a single profile. these individualized profiles can help banks

then google google stopping 3rd parties so advertisers from learning more of. it's users it's may not be in the company's interest but what i'm more concerned about our users interests and if users are being shielded from 3rd parties more parties that they aren't aware of and whose methods they don't know and that protection is more important than the upsets it could cause in the advertising industry. even to. a marked. whether or not google and other tech giants really do care about privacy even if only to protect their business the initiative has certainly benefited the user. that sounds like it's good for users but it also makes google even stronger. they don't have to stop collecting data that's simply stopping others from doing it seems the battle for privacy is far from over what do you think is your privacy important to you do you feel trading your data for a service like google maps is a fair deal would love to know how you deal with these issues. on facebook on the w dot com or you would you see there by by. loneliness hurts behold i need people around

that sounds like it's good for users but it also makes google even stronger. they don't have to stop collecting data that's simply stopping others from doing it seems the battle for privacy is far from over what do you think is your privacy important to you do you feel trading your data for a service like google maps is a fair deal would love to know how you deal with these issues let us know on facebook on the w dot com or you would see it there by. 3 cities in one go it's. nicole philip and lucas take it go to sex city. like they should it's a city on the move with a lot of positive energy i've got plans for today i want to discover talent after i can hear injury and one day one season but 2 countries scores enter the phone and the girl that's going to germany. next on d w. 6. early the global tourist guide function is booming capital i love berlin that's discovered the multicultural metropolis in our duramax series tend. to balance my life choices. i love feet and want to show what a 6 and looks like a swiss like me despite says the 15 nations. 50 stories a

google is an engineering organization. i have not always have, you know a strong sales culture. , that is what he is trying to build. i think if we take them at their word, that will be their focus. maybe it is more bolt on, smaller, incremental acquisitions will be the norm rather than a large transformational one. emily: meantime, right, you could call it a smaller, more incremental acquisition, but at the same time you have got washington turning the screws on big tech, examining potentially google, alphabet for antitrust issues. is now the right time to be doing a deal like this? gerrit: yeah, i mean i think this deal was under works before this weekend when we saw the latest news about a department of justice investigation into google regarding antitrust. i think it is important to note that in the cloud, google is not dominant at all. you know they are far behind , amazon and microsoft. they have had, you know, trouble closing that gap, and they are still very, very far from meaningfully catching up to those two comp

what is google lobbying for? that google think would be on the side of the u.s.. google sells its operating system to android. it's not allowed to do that now to huawei now because the policy of the u.s. government and that might change. the reason google says it is doing this is that in a world where huawei develops its own operating system, that would be where phone users are not a secure and potentially american users are using huawei phones, they could be spied on by the chinese government. i think there is more going on here. huawei doesn't want google to build a system that could be successful in selling other countries southeast asia and africa. these countries where google and android is popular. mostawei is one of the popular smartphone makers in the world. not supplyinge them with the operating system couldn't that be a huge hit to the android business? >> it could down the road. it is all speculation right now. this whole tech trade war could go away and we don't need to worry about this anymore. you can imagine a future where huawei is able to develop

emily: phil harrison, google vice president. coming up, the rise of digital in china, how they are testing beijing's great firewall. we will discuss next, this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: the regime of china's president xi jinping is one of the most restrictive the internet has ever seen. beijing spends about $180 billion a year on surveillance and censorship tools like the great firewall. the controls are tested by a new group of tech savvy activists. bloomberg businessweek editor jeff muskus joins us. jeff: some like the folks at greatfire.org, a collection of activists that have been up and running since 2011, they do their best to provide a jumping off point for people who are in china and want to use -- either through browsing tools are or social media -- a different kind of site they don't normally have access to if they abide by the rules of the road. but we also spoke with folks including laborers that may be planting trees and spraying pesticide, they are unlikely activists as it gets tougher and tougher to speak up online

peter: if google -- google and facebook have been successful. can you agree with that? >>. yes. peter: have they been positive influences? >> positive in the sense that more people consume more hard news than ever, including millennials. people often say young people don't consume news. they consume more news than when we were their age because it is available. to have that expansive audience, returns diminishing asks, where is the money going? matthew: i think the answer is something we discussed. we often say in the internet sector that the competition is always a click away. that applies equally to these digital native news publishers who are not just competing with one another but also competing with other entertainment content, other sources of answers and entertainment. you can look something up on "the washington post" and you might look at the wikipedia entry. all of these provide competition for the news content. at the same time, they are competing for the advertising money. attention markets are two-sided. or have to bring users readers on one side and advertisers on

emily: we've seen 20,000 employees walk out google for -- walkout of google for a different reason, for how the company handled sexual harassment. and certainly, tech employees do not necessarily complain about being underpaid. but could this sentiment spread to other industries? josh: it could, and as you have said, we have seen a wave of activism among tech staff. we have seen a kickstarter that people have translated into trying to form a union. emily: josh eidelson, who covers workers issues here. thank you so much. coming up, google announces a multibillion-dollar deal to buy data analytics firm looker. this is bloomberg. -- is it the right time for m&a as antitrust scrutiny ramps up in washington? this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: at time when big tech is r under a microscope with the u.s. government, google is set to buy a data analytics firm. looker gives google a new tool in its campaign to sell more and -- cloude storage and software in its competition with larger rivals amazon and microsoft. google has not made a big acquisition since 2014. why now, and why looker? gerrit: i'm no

google secretly adding filters for its search is. like a loan shark adding interest points in the finest of prints at the bottom of a 100 page document except google does that in invisible ink but search is by far not the only tool in google's arsenal a web browser smartphones tablets laptops p.c.'s an operating system for phones tablets and smart t.v.'s the world's best seller that as over 2 and a half 1000000000 active users monthly google can tinker with any of those any time at its whim and apparently it plans to do so including to their head of responsible innovation. that it was good. for you. to be taken care of what they. think. now how's that for innovation or how's that for don't be evil how's that for do the right thing actual slogans google promises to a bite to proudly but why not play god when it's totally the right thing it's pretty scary they they are also research results to match their definition of fairness because it just in a matter of a few people say is with a d. mystere and what they deem isn't fair really the

that sounds like it's good for users but it also makes google even stronger. they don't have to stop collecting data that's simply stopping others from doing it seems the battle for privacy is far from over what do you think is your privacy important to you do you feel trading your data for a service like google maps is a fair deal we'd love to know how you deal with these issues. on facebook on the w dot com or you would you see a day by by. eco africa. looks at eco friendly mobility in a special edition from the garden all the books to me to have so what can we do to make it yourself from a to b. more environmentally friendly. we look at the mobility of the future in africa. on the total. costs like. culture. hair. and. superman. superfood stylish style icon don't let o's. life style your. 16. linwood. video. hello everybody and welcome to this special edition of equal africa and both went to germany yes and did we came for the global media forum on thought we should do a piece wrong you're up for a change and now we're here great time i see who gets a.

google announced it will be limiting online track and cookies. as a noble deed to protect users privacy. the changes will concern chrome browser over 60 percent of us use other browsers like firefox or safari added automatic anti tracking features long ago so it looks like google is finally catching up. google announced its chrome update will allow users to block and delete 3rd party cookies visiting a website usually creates a number of 3rd party cookies running in the background many of which track users over different web pages. one challenge the browser update will have to solve is how to not delete cookies that are helpful for the user. via cookies tell the other side something about me. now that might be useful if i'm shopping online for example the whole park because it lets a website recall which items i've already placed in my shopping cart invite. as a user i'm like i want that remember that i want whether i'd want a 3rd party it's advertisers or trackers to know about it is an entirely separate questions on that as the guys might agree

that sounds like it's good for users but it also makes google even stronger. they don't have to stop collecting data that's simply stopping others from doing it seems the battle for privacy is fall from all over what do you think is your privacy important to you do you feel trading your data for a service like google maps is a fair deal we'd love to know how you deal with these issues. on facebook on the w dot com or you would you see a day i buy. i think is everything challenging 1st and i make i'm listening. so much different culture between here and there still challenging for empathy. to solicit think it was worth it for me to come to germany. and scout my license to work as a swimming instructor to share knowledge and teach children other dogs just run faster just. lets your story take part share it on info migrants dot. closely. carefully. there is simply. too didn't. discover. subscribe to the documentary on you tube. these are members of one of the most notorious armed vigilante groups in the us operating in new mexico they try to apprehend people cros

harrison, google vice president. still ahead, cracking down on unwanted robo calls, but will it work? we will discuss next. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> a list of top robo callers include wells fargo. although then use robo calls to chase debts and sometimes they do that a lot, as this woman can testify. lisa says wells fargo ring her more than 20 times a day. >> what is the point of calling someone 20 times a day to collect a debt? this great timing, because when what i couldn't pay you 45 minutes ago, a small propeller plane full of unmonitored drug money just crashed into my deck. emily: that was an epic monologue. john oliver's point pretty universal. nobody likes robo calls. the good news is, you may be getting less soon. the sec footed to allow carriers to block robo calls by default. this is opposed to waiting for customers to sign up on their own but experts warn that skimmers may still be able to get through. first of all, will this work? todd: it will work. it will grant some relief to consumers, because the c

that sounds like it's good for users but it also makes google even stronger. they don't have to stop collecting data that's simply stopping others from doing it seems the battle for privacy is fall from all over what do you think is your privacy important to you do you feel trading your data for a service like google maps is a fair deal would love to know how you deal with these issues. on facebook on the w dot com or you would you say you did bye bye. bye special edition from the global media forum and gone with the 5 top african junkies the. continent. internet past completely dependent always a story on any story for us to go and find a story. to 77 percent. of the. costs like what's a season. heroes drama struggle. during the victory defeats. comdex rising star good. everything moved to. look up to season. 16. earth the home force. having google ideas tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas that protect the climate and boost green energy solutions by global ideas in a series of global 3000 on t.w. and online. welcome

google and facebook, the google is completely different. the issues go to the heart of the business models. there is no easy fix. that doesn't mean the antitrust investigations will lead to actions. the investigations are going to look really seriously at ways to force change in the business model. emily: all we know is the doj and ftc have divided oversight over possible investigations. what is your sense over the investigations and if they will actually happen? roger: i am obviously not in a position to know the answer to that question. i surely would love to know the answer. here is what i believe. there are signals coming out of ftc relative to facebook that are inescapable. we have heard indications that it might be a $5 billion fine, there would be other actions resulting from the violations of the consent decree from 2011. there is more evidence as we saw earlier this week, the wall street journal reporting that there might be evidence that mark zuckerberg knew about the privacy violations taking place. if that evidence proves to be

my name is derek slater, and i am the global director of information that google. -- at google. of --role, i lead a team for public policy framework on online content. at google, we believe that the internet has been a force for creativity, learning, and access to information, supporting the free flow of ideas to make the world universally accessible and useful, yet there have always been legitimate limits to free expression, and this is true both online and off, especially when it comes to terrorism, hate speech, and misinformation. we take these issues seriously and want to be a part of the solution. solution. in my testimony today, i will focus on two areas where we are making progress to protect our users. first, on the enforcement of our policies around terrorism and hate speech, and second, combating this more broadly. on youtube, we have rigorous policies and programs against those that spread hate or incite violence. we have invested heavily in machines and people. first, youtube's enforcement system starts at the point of which a user uploads a video. if it is similar t

[laughs] google took it down. that's not surprising. you could already be tossed of youtube and facebook if you decide they are using speech you don't like. they will accuse you of hate speech, whatever that means. now they can toss you off their sites just for putting up videos that make you look bad. they probably won't be banning any dmz videos anytime soon, you can be certain of that. meanwhile, this week, a knitting site with 8 million members banned all explicit support for donald trump, and only donald trump. and they got away with it. because they've gotten away with it, other platforms will almost certainly do the same thing. all of this is going on in public, but most republicans haven't even responded to it. they haven't reacted at all. as soon as the 2016 election was over, the press and big tech plotted to control the narrative in 2020, which is a way to say control the outcome of 202020. and using fake news as an excuse to control the public discourse. republicans were in charge of congress at the time -- they did nothing

because i hate google . i am critical of google because of what they do, it creates displacement and the need for housing. if they step up to address that, i will accept that. if they do not, i will continue to speak out against them. >> reporter: kiet do, kpix 5. >>> we are learning more about a man killed in a freeway shooting. officers were called to the scene at 10 pm last night. today the coroner identified the shooting victim as a 30- year-old, matthew rios. earlier today we spoke to his mother who said she does not know why anyone would do this? >> i want justice for what happened to my son. whoever did this, they have to pay. >> no word on any suspects or motive. this is the third freeway shooting in the bay area in the past few days. including a shooting in the caldecott tunnel on sunday night. >>> i am juliette goodrich. outside of the superior court house. covering the go ship trail. i was inside the courtroom as defendant max harris took the stand. today was cross examinations. >> he is totally l

by far not the only tool in google's arsenal a web browser smartphones tablets laptops p.c.'s an operating system for phones tablets and smart t.v.'s the world's best seller that as over 2 and a half 1000000000 active users monthly google can tinker with any of those any time at its whim and apparently it plans to do so including to their head of responsible innovation that. it was. good. 1 for you. to be taken care of by what you. think. it is. now how's that for innovation or how's that for don't be evil how's that for do the right thing actual slogans google promises to a bite to proudly but why not play god when it's totally the right thing it's pretty scary they they are also research results to match their definition of fairness because it isn't a matter of a few people saying is with a d. mystere and what they deem isn't fair really their fairness term is kind of a smokescreen that the person will stand in video they like to etc seen is more about their particular political viewpoints google they are published in a certain stories to curating news specifically for the