Google Search Is Like ‘Cigarettes or Drugs,’ Executive Said
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Michael Roszak, vice president for finance at Google testified at the Justice Department’s trial last week.
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A senior Google executive once likened the company’s search advertising business to selling drugs, calling it “one of the world’s greatest business models ever created” since the company can “ignore” users and focus on generating revenue from advertising.
Michael Roszak, vice president for finance at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, wrote the notes during a July 2017 training Google offered on communications.