How Google Shifts Votes: A ‘Go Vote’ Reminder Is Not Always What You Think It Is

An illuminated Google logo is seen inside an office building in Zurich, Switzerland December 5, 2018. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

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If you accessed the Google search engine on Election Day in 2018, you were probably amused and delighted to see the words “Go Vote” where the word “Google” usually is. Perhaps you even said to yourself, “What a great public service Google is performing!”