, just google. favoring hillary clinton, whom i supported strongly but the point is, i reported what i found. that level of bias shifted over time somewhere between 2.6 and 10.4 million votes to hillary without anyone knowing it occurred. >> so how does that get accomplished? the algorithms that are changed and adjusted and so forth? to have that significant of an impact, obviously someone or something want someone to win and someone to lose. to the person who goes on google, how is that manifested? >> if you go to google and type in anything election related, immigration or a law, think about the things related to election, you end up with search suggestions that passed you as your typing, we know those suggestions are very powerful effect on people. they alone can shift opinions and vote dramatically. search results appear below and if there's a bias in them,t if a search result is highest on the list, if that takes you to a webpage that makes one candidate look better than another, if you're unde

google. when a company becomes a verb it may seem as though the states are david taking on goliath but i am proud to stand tall of my fellow attorneys general from across the country as we protect the free market and protect the american consumer. thank you and god bless. >> good afternoon communities in ladies and german. i am utah attorney general sean reyes. there is no question that google is a market dominant player when it comes to internet search with nearly 90% of the share. there is nothing wrong with being the dominant player if it is done fairly. that is what our investigation intends to uncover and reveal whether google is played by the , rules or acted fairly. there is a fine line sometimes between aggressive business practices and easy go once. the line is very clear. again, our investigation will determine whether google has crossed the line. i want to reiterate, this is a seminary investigation, google is entitled to a presumption of innocence as we look into whether the actio

google and google controls a lot of that information. of course, 90% of the revenue they google derives is from advertising. the advertising ecosystem is complex but fair to say google controls or is a major player in every aspect of that apply chain. and so, to put that into context if you are trying to buy house google owned the house and google owned not just that house but lots of houses on the block and in your neighborhood and city and state and in the country quite frankly. they also were the seller's agent and the buyers agent helping you negotiate a fair price. certainly there are questions that would need to be race. i support innovation and i support free market which is why this investigation is so important. we need to ensure that we absolutely ensure that even the biggest of big tech companies are accountable and even the biggest of the tech companies are subject to the rule of law. thank you. >> good afternoon i'm herbert, attorney general for the state of tennessee. thank you for coming. one of the things we are each did

google. as a new mom, when my daughter is sick and i search online for advice or doctors, i want the best advice from the best doctors. not those doctors and not the most americans think it's free to google something, but it comes at a cost. a cost that the freedom to choose the best products from the best companies. 90% of google's $117 billion annually comes from digital advertising. omes from digital advertising. every second of every day on every computer screen and every smartphone screen, there is a super bowl ad personalized to you, and it's powered by google. when a company becomes a verb it may seem as though the states are david taking on goliath but i am proud to stand tall of my fellow attorneys general from across the country as we protect the free market and protect the american consumer. thank you and god bless. >> good afternoon communities in ladies and german. i am utah attorney general sean reyes. there is no question that google is a market dominant player when it comes to

google business. suggestpelling analyses that the overwhelming number of relate to google businesses and/or advertisers that pay for that slot within those links. really careerals about where the rubber meets the road, and that is for the residents of their estates and consumers. we also care about businesses, especially small businesses, that may be locked out as a result of what may be monopolistic power. this is an unusual setting right here. who next to friends of mine i vehemently disagree with on issues like immigration, reproductive rights, gun rights, and other issues, certainly health care. but we are acting as one today in regards to launching what i know will be a fair and full investigation that will follow, as attorney general paxton said, the facts. thank you very much. >> thank you. i am kevin clarkson, attorney general of alaska. my state has a significant interest in this investigation because of the unique geographic location of alaska. our unique location causes many of our business

search which google dominates. money attorney general colleague sean reyes from utah and i sent a letter to google, inquiring about their power. used to be when we searched google, we will be presented with links unrelated to the google business. very compelling analysis suggest that the overwhelming number of query responses relate to google businesses and/or advertisers that pay for that spot. attorney general's care about where the rubber meets the road. we also care about businesses, especially small businesses. as a result of what may be monopolistic power. this is an unusual setting. i'm next to friends who i vehemently disagree with on issues like immigration, reproductive rights, gun rights and other issues. we are acting as one today. in regards to launching what i know will be a fair and full investigation that will follow as attorney general paxton said the tax. >>> i'm kevin clarkson, attorney general of alaska. alaska has a significant interest because of the unique geographic location of alaska. cause

google is massive. almost everybody uses google. how are they able to manipulate vote. what are they doing. >> if google search results, for any reason are biased to favor one candidate or one party for any reason, that will shift a lot of opinions about that candidate and a lot about sin in fact it can shift millions of votes. it doesn't matter whether an employee or an executive at google did this deliberately. the algorithm alone, a computer program could be doing this and it will fil still affect the outcome of elections. >> are they trying to affect the outcome of election. >> i don't know for sure. there have been a number of leaks recently from google, there's even been some whistleblowers who are saying google has a very strong political bias internally that they lean left which i tend to do as well that they are deliberate in wanting to affect. >> i'm interested in what you found. are they biased or not. be very specific. what happened in 2016 in the presidential election. >> in 2015 i set up the first ever monitoring system that allowed me to it look over the

that's really going to go somewhere fancy i'll do a google search i did a google search for the best restaurant in berlin and i'm feeling flush so i guess so when i fancy what would you expect i would hope to see a list of articles and reviews of people saying what the best places for us to go for dinner tonight and all websites linking me to the best restaurants in the city let's take a look at what we actually found when we did this for when we define search we've got there a google map with 3 restaurants supposedly the best ones in berlin chosen by google right that they sending out restaurant review as i think they are is this injective selection of all dining options for the seafaring it's very difficult to tell where are they getting that information we don't know now you might scroll down and find what you what you might be looking for these kind of links to the restaurants but in very seductive map you can zoom in you can find different things if we click on we clicked on this. restaurant again we've not got a link to the restaurant itself you've got the map from google you'v

for some time brussels a saddled google with nearly 10000000000 dollars a not you trust spines of of the past 2 years if they can we should has decided to fry and grew go whole point 34000000000 heroes for breaching e.u. and she trust the rules cool has engage in illegal practices just immense it's down that market decision in should its search in the us google and the other tech giants of been able to operate relatively oh i'm disturbed but things now look because if they're about to get a lot tougher that's bring in the ends quarter on wall street for this yes what i as u.s. prosecutor says finally convince to come around and now take a closer look at google the pressure overall clearly is mounting and not at least with the last presidential election with the cambridge analytical scandal surrounding facebook we've seen that they are real consequences from the business practices of some of the big tech giants with google we all saw a couple of months ago had protests from the employees because of google thinking about. a search engine for the chinese market so wherever you look ther

most stay on the google page, you have google shopping, google travel, google air, all difficult services within google. same thing for amazon. charles: lisa, deirdre, thank you very much. appreciate it. we'll continue to monitor the states attorney general, the press conference, the investigation into google. of course its impact on the individual stock and group of stocks and overall market during this hour. also during this hour president trump is about to leave to north carolina to host a rally. we'll bring you any comment he may make to reporters. new data from china showing the trade fight is strongly impacting the economy. no matter how long it takes definitely a fight worth having. reagan economist art laffer joins us next with his take. ♪ doctor bob, what should i take for back pain? before you take anything, i recommend applying topical relievers first. salonpas lidocaine patch blocks pain receptors for effective, non-addictive relief. salonpas lidocaine. patch, roll-on or cream. hisamitsu. every curve, every innovation, every feeling. a product of mastery. lease the 2019 es 350

map and google a choice the top 3 choices that google has decided for us now i have no idea and it's very difficult to find as you can google it how they chick choosing options for dinner. is it objective i don't know who we're going to try to find out is a good result for the restaurants have they had to advertise in google to get on to that selection they might scroll down to find it let's click on one of these restaurant sets aside to go click i think we have the clip there where we click onto and i we have it right yet they go we kick on to the. tim holler restaurant that's where i'd like you to take me for dinner again we're still in the world of google this is google map this is google reviews even we haven't got anywhere close to the actual restaurant yet so it's very difficult to get out of the world of google and while we're in that world they're controlling everything that we see and that the question is how fair is that what of google said nearly nothing we contacted them for a statement today they pointed to us to a blog from the company's senior vice president to local a

i spoke exclusively with google cloud ceo. him how is the partnership going to improve his competitive position as he battles the big rivals like amazon and microsoft. we have a unique set of assets. we have the world's best information analytics. we have material advantages in how a.i. can be built on top of data. we have a platform that allows people to ingest clinical data, genomic data and other patient-related data and build clinical work flow on top of it. >> we talk about the emphasis on sales. you have been acquisitive. do you think, though, with increasing regulatory scrutiny on google, does that hamper your ability to do more big meaningful acquisitions in the future >> we don't see that, no. >> why not >> i think the different businesses. there is a business in the consumer space and enterprise space. the cloud business in the enterprise space. we are focussed on delivering our own solutions and choosing areas to pick off the best complimentary partners to compliment our solution. >> google has come under fire. pete

these android lawn statues are even a designated location on google maps. welcome to google.in the. east and west. the european union handing google a 2700000000 dollar trust fine. these companies command growing power over our daily lives and a growing political influence google spends more than 6000000 euros a year lobbying brussels alone the e use transparency register lists more than 200 meetings with google representatives since 2014. google is the busiest lobbyist in brussels. we finally get our interview not in california. but in munich germany. with one of the longest serving employees yes. how important is ai for google. is so important to us that 2 years ago we rebranded our entire research division into google a on this if you get a i drives a significant part of our product development. above all drives a significant part of our efforts to improve the quality of our products. take machine translation through the use of machine algorithm that we've seen faster progress over the last 2 years than we did over the entire previous decade. society will undoubtedly be pr

how important is ai for google. is so important to us that 2 years ago we rebranded our entire research division to google ai this cat ai drives a significant part of our product development. ai above all it drives a significant part of our efforts to improve the quality of our products. take machine translation through the use of machine algorithms that we've seen faster progress over the last 2 years than we did over the entire previous decade. society will undoubtedly be propelled forward by the implementation of these services and the use of ai in the years to come from. what's key is that it's done responsibly under the principles of transparency we need to explain health things work why they are needed or people's data goes how they can control it how they can delete it if they want to delete it or forward it to the user must have a control. but what about technologies like google home the smart microphone sitting in people's living room. google whom you have google home isn't used dropping there's a small chi

in 2004 google cofounder larry page said the purpose of google is to have google quickly find what up and get to the right place as fast as possible. would you agree still claims that that's your principle guiding principle? congressman our goal is to provide user information as quickly and fishily as possible. >> i want to direct your attention to two studies. the first is a study recently produced by rand fish kin a leading represent expert on search engine. opt mission i found that google traffic no longer goes for the goingle web but stays on google products. the second a research by cafra consulting finding that google is increasing keeping both majority and growing share of traffic within google's cosystem, walled garden. do you agree that these sites show that google is no longer thoeg showing people the best products or best results but instead is giving results to keep them on google products not on google's platform. >> thank you for the question, congressman. i'm not familiar with either of the studies. what i can say we send a lot of clicks and traffic to competitors in ou

different google products and we're talking about 250 or so products that google offers on many of them reach or a 1000000000 or 2 or 3000000000 of users but also other applications relying on word services so there's a huge dependency of users on google as a company and the question here is when someone will come is it possible to break up on a police is a good test on the highway coming into the horror it is possible as you told me earlier when we spoke with your own phone i mean you don't run a google android and i. says because it's off of the posse. will services only allowed you to have the most updated google applications or those of collaborative google etc weather wise your phone functions normally without will go services and you can use it for anything you want but as a as a consumer if i buy this huawei phone can i trust that it doesn't give the chinese government access to my phone the question is really complicated actually because can you trust any fun or any device these days most of them are made in places you don't think of most in china and a way doesn't matter if tha

2 years the commission has decided to find google 4340000000 euros for breaching e.u. anti trust rules. who has engaged in illegal practices just immense it's down that market position in its search in the u.s. google and the other tech giants have been able to operate relatively undisturbed but things now look as if they're about to get a lot tougher. let's bring in the quarter on wall street for this yes what has u.s. prosecutors finally convinced to come around and now take a closer look at go. pressure overall clearly is mounting and not at least was the last presidential election with the cambridge analytical scandal surrounding facebook we've seen that they are real consequences from the business practices of some of the big tech giants with google we all saw a couple of months ago had protests from the employees because of google thinking about extra search engine for the chinese markets or wherever you look there is more pressure coming up from the european union from australia from the u.k. from france and now all still from the united states by the way basica

powerpoint documents from google? >> yes, i heard about that report in industry news. >> have you seen the report? >> no, i have not. >> so you didn't review the report to prepare for this hearing? >> it's been a busy day, and i have a day job which is digital well-being at google, so i'm trying to make sure i keep the trains on the tracks. >> i'm sorry this hearing is impinging on your day job. >> it's a great opportunity. i really appreciate it. >> one of the things in that report, and i recommend that people with political bias at google watch the entire report and judge for yourself. there's a video from a woman, a secret video that was recorded. jen jenai is the head of responsible innovation for google. are you familiar with ms. jenai? >> i work in user experience, and i believe that ai group is somebody we worked with on the ai principles. but it's a big company. and i don't work directly with jen. >> do you know her, or no? >> i do not know jen. >> okay. as i understand it, she has shown in the video saying, a

but for google and other companies like google, it's all about what they are doing with our data, isn'treally key moment for privacy campaigners who say absolutely, if google decide you have the right to be forgotten then why does that not apply around the world ? why does that not apply around the world? it's why does that not apply around the world ? it's odd why does that not apply around the world? it's odd that you will be able to find information in the united states that you cannot find within europe but of course the google argument is it's a very different internet to the internet we've had so far which is absolutely based around freedom of speech and the right to information. so it's a real clash of ideologies, if you like, as much as it is a legal clash. but in some ways, you wonder to what extent any of this could be enforced, for the man in the street, he or she, they are never going to chase google if they don't do what they are supposed to do? the question is, how would you know, all we have is that we have a right to ask companies to remove information about us, they hav

was still showing these results to the rest of the world so it tried to prosecute google google appealed out up to the court of justice which today started with google basically it found that the europe doesn't have the right to tell google what it can share other people the rest of the world in the rest of the world a terrorist kind of makes sense but what does it mean in practice well i guess we should to explain how this actually works for europeans and it works by a system called geo blocking basically google looks up your ip address and decides what information you can and cannot see now i tried this by searching my own name actually so basically google if you go on to google you'll get your search results you scroll to the bottom of the page and down the bottom there what you'll see. he is that google has looked at my ip address which is the number that tells where my web host is located it thinks i'm in bonn germany well i'm not in bonn i'm in berlin but i guess deutsche of l. is web hosting service is located in bonn and this tells you that this is not a perfect system in fact yo

a represent asked google -- a representative asked google, it is true that 50% of searches go to googleebsites, and google was not able to give "no" as an answer to that question, so what we have is google taking over the internet because it has such a huge monopoly share. it is able to prioritize its own websites at the expense of every other business in our economy, so i am really not worried about china. rrit, one of the legal barriers here is talking about how the consumer is harmed. as said, google is a free service for consumers. what about the consumer being harmed? said, with, as sally consumers giving up their data without being paid for it in a fair way, that is something that google and other large tech companies have done for a long time, and in the united states at least, they have been able to push off some of these investigations, because they were services that were free to the end consumer, but there is the consumer who buys the advertising. they need to bid on advertisement so people can find them online. that is a consumer of the google product, and that is kind of wh

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the european union has been investigating google for some time brussels is saddled google with nearly $10000000000.00 an antitrust fines over the past 2 years the commission has decided to find google $4340000000.00 euros for breaching e.u. anti trust rules. who has engaged in illegal practices just immense that market position in its search. in the u.s. google and the other tech giants have been able to operate relatively undisturbed but things now look as if they're about to get a lot tougher. let's bring in the quarter on wall street for this what has u.s. prosecutors finally convinced to come around and now take a closer look at the pressure overall clearly is mounting and not at least was the last presidential election was the cambridge analytical scandal surrounding facebook we've seen that they are real consequences from the business practices of some of the big tech giants was in google we all saw a couple of months ago i had protests from the employees because of google thinking about. a search engine for the chinese market so wherever you look there is more pressure coming u

that one is likely to be theping without android, official google android and google apps.lor: that was one of my key questions, is you have customers that might be ok for now with an updated software. how long until they become frustrated enough that they don't have the new software, that they start to switch away from huawei? alistair: i think that is a big risk for sure. we were looking at one note today from gene munster, who is a veteran apple watcher, and he was saying this actually might be good news for apple in europe. really, it will probably lead premium providers because huawei will struggle if they don't come with the official google android system when they ship. taylor: alistair, what is huawei 's long-term game plan? you think when android comes out and apple comes out with the new phone, what does huawei do? what is there long-term solution? alistair: the long-term solution is to build an operating system of their own, which they are working on, so they don't need android. the problem comes when you are outside of china. people expect an android phone to ha

apps the google cloud business is more isolated. in part because it relies on sales force and tech-related clients. he said they are having enormous global growth particularly in europe i asked him about why that is. >> we have a very strong presence in europe the recent announcement was made largely driven by their customers. we have a lot of presence in the uk, western europe and other parts of the continent it is a big area focus for us. we are growing faster in terms of people, customers revenue faster here than any other part of the world >> faster than any other area? >> that is correct >> any numbers to disclose for that >> we don't disclose the numbers. we are scaling it super fast in response to customer demand. >> why do you this i that is in europe >> people in europe are really beginning to adopt cloud at some point, there was reluctance there is enormous consumer demand they want new experiences and banking more convenient. many say to deliver those experiences, i need a new technology platform. they use cloud as a way

territories announced they are teaming up to investigate google business practices. texas attorney general is leading the investigation, he says they're starting with the review of google's ad practices and how consumer data they collect needs into the dominant but could be go beyond that. >> many consumers believe the internet is free, certainly we know from google's products that the internet is not free. >> the bipartisan team is a show of force for google, the attorney general eric smit tells me there is strength in numbers. his date was the first to launch an antitrust probe into google and he says everything is on the table with this investigation. the district of columbia says this bipartisan is unprecedented. this is just one more on a pile of problems for google as they face ramped up scrutiny from congress in a separate investigation by the department of justice. lou: thank you very much. acting commissioner of customs and border protection mark morgan claimed the department of homeland security was never in violation of a 2005 law that requires federal law

kurt: google obviously owns youtube. main way that a lot of people spread entertainment videos, but also news and information and we have seen a and thingsl hoaxes go on to youtube and get spread far and wide. when you look at that, when you look at microsoft with skype and other communication services, i think you bring these companies large userat have a base and a large technology base of services people use to communicate and spread information. that is the biggest concern that i can see, they are worried stuff is going to get onto these services and spread like wildfire without being able to be contained. taylor: would you expect any real piece of information to come out of this, or did it feel more like a planning meeting? kurt: the way it has been described to us by multiple people is really just a planning meeting at this point. of whatll pretty aware facebook has done in terms of taking down coordinated campaigns that originated in countries like russia and iran and even china just a few weeks ago. i think there

with google has done rise to that level and if not, what makes that analogy useful? >> yeah, of course tobacco companies aren't doing anything to help us. it's about minimizing the harm to our society where google, facebook, many of us consume products and services because we like this and most consumers don't necessarily want a big change here. it's not necessarily the amount of harm or egregiousness relative to the template and how fast you move. sometimes these attorneys general can move more quickly. >> why would you want to invest in google now or alphabet? when they posted their most recent quarter, it was powerful and some thought maybe the stock needs to be re-rated we haven't done too much by stock price since then what will get alphabet out of this funk and beyond the regulatory concerns. >> two reasons why tyler should invest look at microsoft. there was a ten-year overhang. the government was going to break the company up office was done. microsoft is one of the largest market caps on the planet. they are crushing it they're doing phenomenal google trains

taylor: how does google respond to this?air: people we have spoken to in recent weeks, what they would really love -- the phrase is let's get back to work. they would love for employees to keep talking to each other, but to talk about the news and new goaps thg we are building or something like that rather than saying they don't want google cloud to work with customs and border patrol and things like that. what they want them to do is talk more about product stuff. taylor: thanks for joining me. sticking with government and big tech employment, presidential candidate and senator elizabeth warren is going after amazon. she and two other democratic senators called out the e-commerce giant for "ignoring labor laws and fostering work conditions that are detrimental to the safety and basic humanity of its workers." spencer joins me from seattle where he covers amazon. elizabeth warren really coming after big tech here. what is her argument? spencer: this comes after a couple of hard-hitting investigations from buzzfeed and pro-pu

day ag probe into google but it is the largest.0 strong bipartisan watchdog is a show of force for the company, missouri attorney general eric schmidt tells me there is strength in numbers. >> but ultimately that is the force and power of attorney general getting together to get answers and to make sure everybody is held accountable. even the big tech companies are held accountable. when 50 attorney generals come together, 50 attorney generals sent a strong message to google. i will not quote joe biden but i will tell you, it is a big deal. >> paxton saying he will not say today what legal remedies come out of the investigation, whether it would be a sign or restructuring of the company for google so really, google's fate is up in the error, but their stock is not affected by the news today, closing down a little over a point, neil. >> neil: the threat has been out there on the federal, global level for months. hillary, thank you very, very much. here to weigh in on this, so happy to see this guy back here to sorted out. what do yo

but the mate 30 won't be licensed for key google apps including gmail, google maps, and youtube.ell its 56 technology to a non—chinese firm as a way to address security fears. an idea its deputy chairman was pushing at a press conference in shanghai on wednesday. translation: there are some suspicions over the security of huawei's feijoo technology in the world, which i think are baseless. "sg. world, which i think are baseless. ——sg. you will always have suspicions about security when you can't get hold of that technology. but if you can have it by some commercial means and you can control it and make your own developments with it, think that will help ease people's concerns about security. dominic sunnebo is global consumer insight director at the research company kantar. welcome to the programme. this phone is being launched today in munich. and yet we make not be able to bite in europe. that is exactly the case. lodging without google apps is a challenge for acro, a huge challenge for consumers. this is what people use on their phones day in and day out. it'll be a huge risk

has google broken any laws?ll, that's what this investigation that we launched today will determine. we are looking into whether or not google's business practices, they may undermine consumer choice, stifle innovation, negatively impact privacy, harm the individual marketplace. google is such a large company in the control of information online. we're just trying to determine through this investigation whether or not the online search engine juggernaut is breaking antitrust laws. kristina: attorney general, thank you for joining us. i was at the new york stock exchange just before coming to this show, speaking to a lot of traders about it. it seems they saw the message and didn't really care. that's reflected in the fact there wasn't much of a selloff in a lot of these big tech companies. one trader said in particular these tech companies have a lot of cash on the side and are prepared for this and it's already priced in. do you feel like that's the case, a lot of these tech giants are already financially prepa

>>a group of 50 attorneys general is investigating whether google is an illegal monopoly. texas attorney general ken paxton is leading the investigation is a. >>dominate the buyer's side. the seller side. the auction site and even the video side with you too. >>south dakota's attorney general jason rounds berg says they'll start by looking at google's vertising practices in you know get that. >>person at the top of the surgery, you get the one pays the most they say that's especially important when people are searching for doctors or other critical services were talking potential looking search privacy and all of those different aspects utah's attorney general sean reyes says consumers may not understand they pay to use google. >>by giving up their personal information i don't think the average american understands how much google is involved in their lives notably missing from this investigation are the attorneys general of alabama and of california where google isaheadquartered. >>calls the bow with choice as google is not a monopoly in part because alternative search en

taylor: how much of a win is this for google?spite the issues that they ofe had, they have a lot political muscle and they can pick up these big wins. they talked about the issue and thethey can basically scrub internet. they had been working at these. this is a big win for them. taylor: you also do not talk about google winning privacy laws and the eu because they have been much stricter than the u.s. when it comes some of these laws. what does this mean for the eu and google's expansion there? passed lastcy law year, there are people on both sides of the issue. at the same time, companies like google and facebook have enough legal resources to deal with privacy in a way that a lot of startups have not been able to do. people have made the argument that it solidifies their position in the primary market. taylor: by not scrubbing some of big data, advertising is for the bottom line. any sense of what this means for google? -- it has been an issue. if you have this balance between privacy and freedom of expression, google is sayin

it used to be a day when we searched google that we would be presented with links unrelated to the google business. very compelling analyses suggest that the overwhelming number of query responses relate to google businesses and or advertisers that pay for that slot within those links attorney generals really care about where the rubber meets the road and that is for the residents of their states and consumers we also care about businesses especially small businesses that may be locked out as a result of what may be monopolistic power had a complaint has more from washington it's a company so big that its name has become a verb we're talking about google something you might have used dozens of times today well now there are 50 attorney generals from 48 states and 2 territories that are investigating google to find out if it has a monopoly a monopoly in this country if proven can be broken up forced to sell parts of itself now they compared this to david versus goliath and google has faced investigations in the us before pretty much coming through it unscathed but these attorney general sa

the argument for the time being is google but it might not end with google.re, you have this juggernaut that controls most of the searching going on online around the world, owns the android operating system, it's ripe for picking, isn't it? >> it really is. for a time, the argument was the consumers are getting all these services for free so how could they possibly be hurting the consumer? but as you just heard charles gasparino mention, now that the data is considered a commodity, we now have to estimate what's the value of that data because that is an important consideration in determining what the real price to the consumer is. if that price is not the right price, consumers are, in fact, being negatively impacted. neil: but it's a changing landscape, isn't it? i can remember when prodigy was deemed a threat, when aol was deemed a threat, when net scape was deemed a threat. lot of people hearing these names saying what, what, what, but at the time they drew regulators' attention. >> they did. i think the biggest challenge for google here is that this is a

and another fine for google.his time, youtube has agreed to pay a record $170 million to settle claims it violated children's privacy laws. most of the money will go to the federal trade commission. $34 million will go to new york state. youtube has been accused of failing to obtain parental consent in collecting data on kids under 13. we spoke with the vice president of net choice and bloomberg technology's ben brodie on wednesday to discuss. net choice is a lobbying group that counts google as a member. ben: it is certainly easy for google to pay. it is a drop in the bucket compared to their annual revenue. it is, however, a very large fine by the standards of children's privacy, 30 times larger than the previous record, which came in february with tiktok, similar issue, collecting email addresses and names without parental consent on the popular teen video app. you have a lot of people who are saying this is not going to make a dent in googles business practices, but it is setting a record for this space. tayl

ben: it is certainly easy for google to pay.t is a drop in the bucket compared to their annual revenue. it is a very large fine by the standards of children privacy, 30 times larger than the previous record, which came in february with tiktok, similar issue, collecting email addresses and names without parental consent on the popular teen video out. -- video app. you have people who say this is not going to make a dent in the google business practices, but it is setting a record for the base. taylor: give me a break down, carl. what do you make of the fine and the ruling to limit some of the ads and commenting on children's videos? >> thanks for asking. is 30 times larger than any prior fine. what surprised me so much was the fact that the ftc was evil -- even able to extract this fine, given the fact that they have gone well beyond the statutory limits of what the law allows. youtube is a general lottery and's website. every user on youtube says that they are over the age of 13. the terms of service say if you are under the age

here with google, remember what's happening, companies out there are buying ads, only on google and they're so the consumer only has one choice. they have to dial into google to find what they're looking for. lauren: possible outcomes here? >> i think they've got a really good chance, lauren. i actually do. finally after 25, 30 years of the internet, i think we're going to see some type of relief to try to rein in and let others come into the field. lauren: we can debate whether that's good or bad for the industry but i want to talk about the college admissions scandal. felicity huffman will be sentenced on friday. she wants probation. is she going to prison instead? >> i think she's going to prison for one month. and very quickly, what she did is she's trying to minimize -- these pleaded guilty. she's trying to minimize her sentence. i've got to tell you, for a former desperate housewife star, she looks desperate by saying, gosh, minimize my sentence because i can't h get work. lauren: where's the violent crime? who lost money? >> it's the kid who didn't get that seat because felicity and

the european union has been investigating google for some time brussels a subtle google with nearly 10000000000 dollars in and you trust fines over the past 2 years the commission has decided to find google 4340000000 euros for breaching e.u. actually trust rules. who has engaged in illegal practices just a mess it's still not market position in its search. in the u.s. google and the other tech giants have been able to operate relatively undisturbed but things now look as if they're about to get a lot tougher. this is day w business here is the africa with monica jones it will be with you and just a moment i'll be back at the top of the hour in the meantime of course as always the web site t w dot com i'm going to. birth. home. of species. or see if you can. get those are big changes and most start with small steps google indios tell stories of credence people and innovative projects around the world. music concert. drainage submissions and reforestation.