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When I first heard that, I was around 12 years old, and I didn’t realize Google was a for-profit business. I naively saw it as an institution working for the good of society. That was before I understood that any functioning organization has to be sustained by a minimum amount of funding or revenue, and that usually requires a profitable business model to be in place. But what happens when <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/09/google-fined-21-1m-for-search-bias-in-india/" target="_blank">side-effects</a> of the business model detract from the socially beneficial motives, because<em> profit is a higher priority for the company?</em>