As the fallout over the falsely labeled “anti-diversity” Google memo continues, it’s a good time to take a look at users’ trust in the search engine giant. Online survey group Digital Examiner did just that, asking 1,000 users eight questions related to their confidence in the social justice-committed search engine leader. The result: While overall trust in Google remains high, a majority nonetheless believe Google’s searches are biased and don’t trust the company in tracking their search histories.
Analysts estimate that Google now controls “about 95 percent of mobile search query volume on a global basis,” topping around 30 billion searches total a month (Microsoft and Yahoo rank a distant second and third). In other words, Google’s influence in the world is alarmingly massive. So is the company providing its users unbiased results or manipulating data to promote its own agenda? Here are the questions Digital Examiner asked to get a sense of how much the public trusts the most influential company in the world:
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