Report: Google Made a List of Words Its Employees Shouldn’t Say - Gizmodo Australia

The Markup has obtained internal memos from Google, dating back to at least 2019, with lists of bad words employees should never use, or else Google has to put a billion dollars in the antitrust swear jar.

Rather than We will strip the meat from Yelp’s bones and throw its lifeless carcass into our search results, for example, employees should say Users choose our products and services because our products and services are great, not because we force them to.

Just don’t be perceived as evil in legally actionable ways. For example: “Market share” is a no-no, because that’s an FTC phrase; “User Preference for Google Search” is perfectly kosher.

That document, dated August 2019, would have been disseminated months after the EU slapped a third antitrust fine on Google, bringing the total to roughly $US9.6 ($13) billion.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department and state Attorneys General are primed to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google in the coming months, likely around Google’s dominance in the online advertising space.

While sadly a good chunk of the recent Congressional Antitrust hearing harped on conservative bias, campaign marketing emails going to spam boxes, and some bickering over wearing masks — distractions which unfortunately left many lies unchallenged — the committee did review emails which confirmed that Google executives had tried to dominate the search services of MySpace, Yelp, and Booking.com, and had bought YouTube in part as an attempt to ice out Yahoo.

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