Republican nominee Donald Trump called for his supporters to stop using Alphabet¡¯s Google, calling the search engine ¡°illegitimate¡± as he doubled down on his criticisms of large technology companies.
¡°Something¡¯s wrong with Google,¡± Trump said in an interview with controversial video-game celebrity Adin Ross on Monday. ¡°Everybody should maybe just go off Google, not use it.¡±
Trump was referring to claims from billionaire Elon Musk and others that Google is interfering with efforts to find information about the former U.S. president. Musk alleged that Google had a ¡°search ban¡± on Trump, sharing an image that appeared to show the search engine¡¯s auto-correct suggesting ¡°donald duck¡± as one of the options when prompted with ¡°president donald.¡± Musk has endorsed the Republican nominee and is donating to a pro-Trump super political action committee.
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