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🌐 List of human spoken languages

Translations in languages other than English are machine translated and are not yet accurate. No errors have been fixed yet as of February 5th 2021. Please report translation errors here make sure to backup your correction with sources and guide me, as I don't know languages other than English well (I plan on getting a translator eventually) please cite wiktionary and other sources in your report. Failing to do so will result in a rejection of the correction being published.

Note: due to limitations with GitHub's interpretation of markdown (and pretty much every other web-based interpretation of markdown) clicking these links will redirect you to a separate file on a separate page that isn't my GitHub profile page. You will be redirected to the seanpm2001/seanpm2001 repository, where the README is hosted.

Translations are done with Google Translate due to limited or no support for the languages I need in other translation services like DeepL and Bing Translate. For some reason, the formatting (links, dividers, bolding, italics, etc.) is messed up in various translations. It is tedious to fix, and I do not know how to fix these issues in languages with non-latin characters, and right to left languages (like Arabic) extra help is needed in fixing these issues

Due to maintenance issues, over 25 translations are out of date and are using Version 8 or Version 9 of this README file. A translator is needed. Also, as of April 1st 2021, it is going to take me a while to get all the new links working.

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🎌️ Flag guide 🎌️

🚩️🏴️🏳️ Flags were beginning to get added in version 2 of this document. I was originally just going to add the Ukraine 🇺🇦️ flag, but decided to add more, until every language had at least 1 flag. They were done purely with the existing knowledge of the developer. In version 3, flags were added for every language. There are some notes that go with this:

🌐️ [Unions 🇪🇺️ and Nations 🇺🇳️] 🌐️

Languages listed here that are official languages of the European Union have a European Union flag 🇪🇺️ next to them. As of 2022 March 14th, there are currently 27 languages recognized by the European Union, from 27 different member states.

Languages listed here that are official languages of the United Nations have a United Nations flag 🇺🇳️ next to them. As of 2022 March 14th, there are currently 6 languages recognized by the European Union (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish) alongside 193 different member states and 2 observer states.

🌏️ [One China (PRC) 🇨🇳️ Two China (Taiwan) 🇹🇼️ Hong Kong 🇭🇰️ and Macau 🇲🇴️] 🌏️

For neutrality reasons, languages listed here that have an official majority in Chinese speakers will receive all 4 of these flags, even if the language isn't Chinese or in the Sino family of languages.

🌐️ [Global languages 🌐️] 🌐️

Currently, 1 global language is listed, and that is Esperanto. Esperanto is not native to any countries, its goal is to be a universal lingua franca (Latin translation: bridge language) it is represented with a globe with meridians or 🌐️

💞️ [Regarding sexuality 🏳️‍🌈️] 💞️

Sexuality is not measured here, I feel it would be unnecessary, as you are picking out a language, not a sexuality.

💠️ [Location of flag 🚩️] 💠️

Flags are located at the end of each language name (after the Romanization) with one space before, to the right.

Like this:

[Pl Polski Polish 🇵🇱️]

But not like this:

[Pl Polski 🇵🇱️ Polish]

And also not like this:

[Pl 🇵🇱️ Polski Polish]

🏁️ End of flag guide 🏁️

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2022.03.12

I was so angry and frustrated. I didn't save the file, and my computer randomly froze up twice, then crashed. I had to re-add all the flags, it took an hour to do so originally, and I was just seconds away from finishing. I couldn't save the file quick enough. Luckily, all the research was still in my head, and there was no data that wasn't easily replacable (identically) so it is a type of important work that was the best thing to lose, since it was the easiest to recreate, taking me less than 20 minutes

Other notes:

⚠️ A language is missing: Latvian

ℹ️ Possibly supporting the next 126 languages that are going to be added to Google Translate

🗜️ Plans to automate this process with the @AUTOMATE2001 bot

⛔️ Need to find a way to work with these languages on services other than Google Translate.

⚠️ There might be noticeable lag in this section due to how many flag emojis are in use.

Languages segment version: 4 (2022, Monday, March 14th at 1:59 pm)

Why you should stop using Google search

This is an article on why you should stop using the Google search engine. The search engine has many problems, and is a major problem. There are many other good search engines to use instead.

For inexperienced tech users, you should know that the Google search engine doesn't contain all of the Internets content, it is just a way of accessing it. All sites on the Google search engine can still be accessed with other search engines, sometimes with better performance. Google search also has a problem, where searches redirect you to Google AMP which you should avoid as well

Index

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01.0 - Overview

02.0 - Privacy

03.0 - Alternative solutions

04.0 - Anti-competitive behavior

05.0 - Censorship

06.0 - Ads

07.0 - Racism

08.0 - Sweden lawsuit

09.0 - Integrated problems

09.1 - Google Knowledge Graph

09.1.1 - Lack of source attribution

09.1.2 - Knowledge Graph Bias

09.1.3 - It is literally just Wikipedia

09.2 - Google AMP

09.3 - Google News

09.4 - Google Images

09.4.1 - See also (Google Images)

09.5 - Google shopping

09.6 - Google Maps

09.7 - Google Books

09.8 - Google Movies / TV

09.9 - Google Maps

09.10 - Google Books

09.11 - Google Video

09.11.1 - See also (Google Video)

09.12 - YouTube

09.13 - Google Chrome

09.13.1 - See also (Google Chrome)

09.14 - Performance

See also (Performance)

10.0 - Search engine manipulation

11.0 - Alternatives

12.0 - Other things to check out

13.0 - Article info

13.1 - Software status

14.0 - File history

15.0 - Footer

15.9 - EOF

Overview

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Like other Google products, Google Search has a history of privacy and performance issues. The search engine originally grew to prominence in 1998 to the mid 2000s due to its record search performance. Unfortunately, Google doesn't care about the performance anymore (they haven't since 2008) and they focus more on how many ads they can serve you, and how much info they can get from you.

General description from Wikipedia: Google_Classroom - Data from Februry 18th 2021 at 4:27:09 pm (PT: Pacific Time)

Google Search, or simply Google, is a web search engine developed by Google LLC. It is the most used search engine on the World Wide Web across all platforms, with 92.16% market share as of December 2020, handling more than 5.4 billion searches each day.

The order of search results returned by Google is based, in part, on a priority rank system called "PageRank". Google Search also provides many different options for customized searches, using symbols to include, exclude, specify or require certain search behavior, and offers specialized interactive experiences, such as flight status and package tracking, weather forecasts, currency, unit, and time conversions, word definitions, and more.

The main purpose of Google Search is to search for text in publicly accessible documents offered by web servers, as opposed to other data, such as images or data contained in databases. It was originally developed in 1997 by Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Scott Hassan. In June 2011, Google introduced "Google Voice Search" to search for spoken, rather than typed, words. In May 2012, Google introduced a Knowledge Graph semantic search feature in the U.S.

Analysis of the frequency of search terms may indicate economic, social and health trends. Data about the frequency of use of search terms on Google can be openly inquired via Google Trends and have been shown to correlate with flu outbreaks and unemployment levels, and provide the information faster than traditional reporting methods and surveys. As of mid-2016, Google's search engine has begun to rely on deep neural networks.

Competitors of Google include Baidu and Soso.com in China; Naver.com and Daum.net in South Korea; Yandex in Russia; Seznam.cz in the Czech Republic; Qwant in France; Yahoo in Japan, Taiwan and the US, as well as Bing and DuckDuckGo. Some smaller search engines offer facilities not available with Google, e.g. not storing any private or tracking information.

Within the U.S., as of July 2018, Bing handled 24.2 percent of all search queries. During the same period, Oath (formerly known as Yahoo) had a search market share of 11.5 percent. Market leader Google generated 63.2 percent of all core search queries in the U.S.

Privacy

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G o o g l e h a s a v e r y v e r y b a d r e c o r d w h e n i t c o m e s t o u s e r p r i v a c y . (I could go on and on with evidence of this, but it took a long time to find and go through all these articles)

Privacy on Google products is always bad, due to all Google products containing spyware.

No matter what you do, when you are using Google, all of your sensitive personal data is being sent to Google and others. Google has also been spotted going through open programs. For example, from personal experience (on Firefox) with a YouTube tab open that I didn't visit, I watched several videos offline (VLC Media Player) Later when I went to check the recommendations, it was nearly everything that I had watched. There is no doubt they are spying on other programs too.

In Chrome (and many other browsers) an incognito mode is present. In Chrome, this mode is pointless, as Google will still mine your data. Even if you turn data mining/tracking off, and enable the "do not track" signal, surprise suprise, Google is still mining your data.

If you think you have nothing to hide, you are absolutely wrong. This argument has been debunked many times over:

Via Wikipedia

Edward Snowden remarked "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. "When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this right, because I’ve got to the point where I have to justify it.’ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights."
Daniel J. Solove stated in an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education that he opposes the argument; he stated that a government can leak information about a person and cause damage to that person, or use information about a person to deny access to services even if a person did not actually engage in wrongdoing, and that a government can cause damage to one's personal life through making errors. Solove wrote "When engaged directly, the nothing-to-hide argument can ensnare, for it forces the debate to focus on its narrow understanding of privacy. But when confronted with the plurality of privacy problems implicated by government data collection and use beyond surveillance and disclosure, the nothing-to-hide argument, in the end, has nothing to say."
Adam D. Moore, author of Privacy Rights: Moral and Legal Foundations, argued, "it is the view that rights are resistant to cost/benefit or consequentialist sort of arguments. Here we are rejecting the view that privacy interests are the sorts of things that can be traded for security." He also stated that surveillance can disproportionately affect certain groups in society based on appearance, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion.
Bruce Schneier, a computer security expert and cryptographer, expressed opposition, citing Cardinal Richelieu's statement "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged", referring to how a state government can find aspects in a person's life in order to prosecute or blackmail that individual. Schneier also argued "Too many wrongly characterize the debate as 'security versus privacy.' The real choice is liberty versus control."
Harvey A. Silverglate estimated that the common person, on average, unknowingly commits three felonies a day in the US.
Emilio Mordini, philosopher and psychoanalyst, argued that the "nothing to hide" argument is inherently paradoxical. People do not need to have "something to hide" in order to hide "something". What is hidden is not necessarily relevant, claims Mordini. Instead, he argues an intimate area which can be both hidden and access-restricted is necessary since, psychologically speaking, we become individuals through the discovery that we could hide something to others.
Julian Assange stated "There is no killer answer yet. Jacob Appelbaum (@ioerror) has a clever response, asking people who say this to then hand him their phone unlocked and pull down their pants. My version of that is to say, 'well, if you're so boring then we shouldn't be talking to you, and neither should anyone else', but philosophically, the real answer is this: Mass surveillance is a mass structural change. When society goes bad, it's going to take you with it, even if you are the blandest person on earth."
Ignacio Cofone, law professor, argues that the argument is mistaken in its own terms because, whenever people disclose relevant information to others, they also disclose irrelevant information. This irrelevant information has privacy costs and can lead to other harms, such as discrimination.

Google search is the same as all other Google products, it contains spyware, as Google is not just a search company, they are a user data company, and you are the product. To Google, you are only worth about $700.00 (unless you are making them ad revenue)

Alternative solutions

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Google Search is very easy to get away from, and unlike other Google products, degoogling isn't very hard, as no data is completely reliant on the engine.

Here are some alternative solutions:

DuckDuckGo (Privacy focused search engine that offers very high functionality, and doesn't track you. If you turn off safe search, DuckDuckGo can also be used to browse some of the dark web (although not all of it, unless you are using Tor. DuckDuckGo currently gets over 2 billion searches per month (As of February 2021) has lots of customization (including multiple built-in dark modes) a privacy extension that tells you the privacy grade of a website, and no targeted advertisements (instead of stalking you to try and give you "better ads" DuckDuckGo will give you ads based on what you search on. So if you search something like "wooden table" DuckDuckGo will give you ads for wooden tables. Start searching with DuckDuckGo, click here for the short URL Click here for the normal link Click here for the Safe mode normal link
Ecosia (another privacy focused search engine with high functionality, but less customization. Ecosia generates revenue for every search you make, every 45-100 searches will result in 1 tree being planteed. Currently, Ecosia has planted over 119,957,709 trees, and has 15 million active users) Start searching with Ecosia, click here
Bing (owned by Microsoft, but still a good search engine. Privacy isn't nearly as bas as Google search, and it gives good results) Start searching with Bing, click here
Yahoo (not the best search engine, but still better than Google. Results may not be as good) Start searching with Yahoo! click here
Yandex (not recommended, based in Russia, and may not be trustable. It is the Google of Russia) Подожди нет, не надо

Anti-competitive behavior

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Google search is very anti-competitive. If you don't use Google Chrome, using any other browser will result in Google continuously bugging you to switch to Chrome (the above example shows 3 different popups just for going to https://www.google.com from another browser)

See: §Google-Chrome

Censorship

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Google search is a censored search engine. Google filters out results it doesn't agree with, so searches are biased.

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Google search uses an excessive amount of ads. In some instances, making a search will result in the entire first page being ads, which results in extra work to try to find what you are looking for.

Racism

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Googles image search engine has been a deal of controversy for many years. Here are some notable examples of racism:

In 2015 to 2018, Google came under controversy for a racist search result. If users typed in the word "gorilla" pictures of African Americans showed up. After much controversy, Google made a weak apology, then as their solution, they censored the results of the word Gorilla and just removed the ability to search for it, instead of trying to fix the bias.

Sources: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Some more examples Excerpt from Wikipedia

Google search engine robots are programmed to use algorithms that understand and predict human behavior. The book, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin talks about human bias as a behavior that the google search engine can recognize. In 2016, some users google searched "three Black teenagers" and images of criminal mugshots of young African American teenagers came up. Then, the users searched "three White teenagers" and were presented with photos of smiling, happy teenagers. They also searched for "three Asian teenagers", and very revealing photos of Asian girls and women appeared. Benjamin concluded that these results reflect human prejudice and views on different ethnic groups. A group of analysts explained the concept of a racist computer program: "The idea here is that computers, unlike people, can't be racist but we're increasingly learning that they do in fact take after their makers...Some experts believe that this problem might stem from the hidden biases in the massive piles of data that the algorithms process as they learn to recognize patterns...reproducing our worst values".

Integrated problems

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Google integrates a number of problematic services into their search engine. This list will go through them/

Google Knowledge Graph

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See in a separate article

Google added the Knowledge Graph on 2012, May 16th. It was intended to give a quick summary of information for searches before you dived into a long search, or went down a rabbit hole. This feature had potential, but it was not implemented correctly.

The main problems include:

Lack of source attribution

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The main problem with the Knowledge Graph is the complete lack of source attribution. Information is given, but the source is most often never cited or even linked to.

Search engines like DuckDuckGo have alternatives to the Google Knowledge Graph that actually link to where the information is coming from. It is a single <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> tag away, come on Google, stop being so lazy!

Knowledge Graph bias

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The Google Knowledge Graph has a history of giving biased information. Some notable incidents include:

Recognizing the Kannada language as the "ugliest language in India" (2021)
This list is incomplete.

It is literally just Wikipedia

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Most of the time, the results for the Google Knowledge Graph are just the summary section of the Wikipedia article on the search subject. To make this worse, Wikipedia isn't even cited as the source, so most people who use this feature have no idea that most of their knowledge is just Wikipedia. This in turn has hurt Wikipedia, as it caused a significant drop in readership and traffic. Most of the time, when someone says Source: Google what they should have said was Source: Wikipedia

Google AMP

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See main article

This is an excerpt from the article on why you should stop using the Google AMP platform. The platform has many problems, and is a major problem. It is an attempt by Google to have more control over the Internet, and is highly anti-competitive. Due to Google Chrome hiding parts of the URL by default as of Chrome 69 (need check for correct version) you may have sent some AMP links without knowing it.

Google search has a problem, where searches redirect you to Google AMP which you should avoid as well

Google News

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Google search has a feature known as Google News. It is a news aggregator. It also has an app that is separate from the Google search engine. Unfortunately, like other Google products, it has severe problems with bias. Similar to the functioning of the YouTube algorithm, the Google News algorithm gives results that may be extreme and isolating.

This section needs lots of work

Google Images

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Not to be confused with Google Photos

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Google Images is an included feature in the Google search engine that allows image searches. The service has problems. As long as it is connected to Google, it should be avoided, as AMP integration is mandatory, and privacy is illegal here.

Google is attempting to convert all of its images into its overreaching WebP file format.

It isn't that hard to alternate from.

This section needs lots of work

Google Shopping

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Google shopping was launched as Froogle back on 2002, December 12th. It is an included feature in the Google search engine that allows linking to online shopping. As it is a Google product, it contains privacy issues, and as part of the Google search engine, AMP integration is mandatory, and privacy is illegal here.

It isn't that hard to alternate from.

This section needs lots of work

Google Maps

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See main article

Google Maps started out as a desktop program written in C++ at where 2 technologies by brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen , but in 2004, October, Google bought the company out, rebranding it as Google Maps on 2005, February 8th.

Starting with the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden, Google Maps has been mired with privacy issues, On January 27, 2014, documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and the GCHQ intercepted Google Maps queries made on smartphones, and used them to locate the users making these queries. One leaked document, dating to 2008, stated that "[i]t effectively means that anyone using Google Maps on a smartphone is working in support of a GCHQ system."

This section needs lots of work. For now, refer to the source article

Google Books

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Google Books is another service by Google that is integrated into the Google search engine.

This section needs lots of work. For now, refer to the source article

Google Movies / TV

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See main article

Formerly known as Google Play Movies

Google Movies is an integrated feature into the Google search engine.

This section needs lots of work.

Google Video

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See main article

Google Video was an integrated feature into the Google search engine. It is no longer a problem, as the service has been defunct since 2013.

However, the service is now known as Google Videos, and is still active. It should be avoided for privacy reasons.

This section needs lots of work. For now, refer to the source article

YouTube

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See main article

Section coming soon.

This section needs lots of work. For now, refer to the source article

Google Chrome

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See main article

Section coming soon. Also see §Anti-competitive-behavior

This section needs lots of work. For now, refer to the source article

Performance

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Section coming soon.

Sweden lawsuit

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In 2013, Google successfully blocked the Swedish language council from adding the new word "ogooglebar" (English: ungoogleable) to the Swedish language. The language council of Sweden accused Google of trying to control the Swedish language.

Also note that the company name Google isn't original either, it is just a minor misspelling of the mathematic term Googol (1 Googol is equal to: 10^100 which equals: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - 1 followed by 100 zeroes)

Sources: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Search engine manipulation

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The Google search engine gets manipulated a lot. This can cause harm to many businesses. For example, in the early 2010s, JCPenney was censored by Google, causing the company to lose a significant amount of revenue, and caused their business to almost fail.

Sources: 1 Need better sources

Alternatives

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There are many viable alternatives to Google search, including but not limited to:

Search engine	Description	Link
DuckDuckGo	DuckDuckGo is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo does not show search results from content farms	`https://duckduckgo.com`, `https://duck.com`
Ecosia	Ecosia is a search engine that plants trees based on how many unique searches have been made. As of 2022, October, Ecosia has claimed to have planted over 160 million trees, and turned some desert lands back into forests	https://www.ecosia.org/
Bing/Microsoft Bing	Bing is a search engine by Microsoft. While not the alternative for everyone, it is still better than using Google.	`https://www.bing.com/`
Swisscows	Swisscows is a Switzerland based search engine that does not store user data, and aims to be family friend, omitting all NSFW/NSFL search results.	`https://www.swisscows.com/`

Other things to check out

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The Google Graveyard (killedbygoogle.com) - a sorted list of the 224+ products Google has killed

GitHub link

Alphabet worker union - The new workers union at Google with over 800 members

Don't want to part with the dinosaur easter egg? This website has you covered

There are other alternates, just search for them.

Some fact checking is needed for this article

Article info

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Software status

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All of my works are free from restrictions. DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) is not present in any of my works. This project does not contain any DRM

This sticker is supported by the Free Software Foundation. I never intend to include DRM in my works.

File history

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Version 1 (2021, Thursday, February 18th 5:10 pm PST))

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Why you should stop using Google search

Index

Overview

Privacy

Alternative solutions

Anti-competitive behavior

Censorship

Ads

Racism

Integrated problems

Google Knowledge Graph

Lack of source attribution

Knowledge Graph bias

It is literally just Wikipedia

Google AMP

Google News

Google Images

See also (Google Images)

Google Shopping

Google Maps

Google Books

Google Movies / TV

Google Video

See also (Google Video)

YouTube

Google Chrome

See also (Google Chrome)

Performance

See also (Performance)

Sweden lawsuit

Search engine manipulation

Alternatives

Other things to check out

Article info

Software status

File history

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