Former Google engineer claims Google CEO Sundar Pichai lied to Congress over search result manipulation

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Google employees do intervene in some user searches, engineer claims, contradicting Pichai's evidence to Congress last year

A former Google software engineer has accused Google CEO Sundar Pichai of lying to the US Congress by saying that that Google doesn't "manually intervene on any particular search result". In a b...

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