Guilty or Not? The 10 Most Ridiculous Things Blamed On Google


Bangalore: “Search-” the first thing comes to our mind when we think Google. But, the Universal search giant has always been dragged into many cases, which are not even related to any of its business and was forced to serve as a scapegoat for a number of bad incidents happened across the globe.

Even the situations have gone to an extend which made Eric Schimdt ,former Google CEO, admit that, “Google had become accustomed to taking blame for almost everything- Terrorist attacks, Child pornography, market share drops, stolen property and a lot more.”    

Let’s have a look at the 10 most ridiculous things blamed on the search giant compiled by Complextech.

# 10 Rupert Murdoch Blames Google for Newspaper Decline

 Date: April 11, 2010

The company, entirely responsible for the downfall of news paper industry was turned out to be Google, at least for Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation founder. He accused the tech giant for taking the content from his media empire and other publishers, without giving any royalties. Google, the believer of “open web,” replied by saying that it has pushed the traffic to all the sites of News Corp. Murdoch in turn implemented a new paying system for readers to access the contents of his site like the Wall Street Journal.