Google not biased against conservatives: executive

Google's top government affairs official said on Monday that the search engine does not discriminate against conservative viewpoints and that he ...

REUTERS: Google's top government affairs official said on Monday that the search engine does not discriminate against conservative viewpoints and that he will reiterate that to a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday.

To manage billions of searches of hundreds of billions of web pages"we rely on an algorithmic approach and implement rigorous user testing and evaluation before we make any changes to our algorithms," Bhatia added. Senator Ted Cruz, who chairs the Senate Judiciary subcommittee holding a hearing on Tuesday with Google, said in April at a similar hearing with Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc that many Americans believe big tech firms are biased against conservatives."If we have tech companies using the powers of monopoly to censor political speech, I think that raises real antitrust issues," Cruz said.

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