Google told me where to park yesterday. Google also has had privacy lawsuits laid against them.
Why are we not paying attention to Google?
Facebook has positioned itself as a social space to facilitate socialization with others of your choosing. Then from that aspect it has tried to move in to the life quality enhancements. In people's minds the information they share on this platform is intended better the aspect of socialization with those they want to socialize with.
Google has been a facilitator of life enhancements like an assistant. Starting at its beginning of just search, you share what you're looking for and it will help you find it. While it may not be obvious in people's minds it still registers at some level when you search you're yelling out to the world, "does anyone have any 6's". Google has tried to move in to the social space but that's not how they are viewed at their core. Everything Google does is ease of life assistance.
I think a fair analogy in public perception is this. Telling things to Facebook is like telling your friends things. You don't expect them to share that information. Telling things to Google is like requesting something of your personal assistant, you expect them to be discreet but ultimately they will need to share things about you and your request in order to fulfill it.
Facebook has been weaponised against the political left and right.
Google has only been weaponised against the political right.
Since most techies lean left they are happy to give Google a free pass and focus on Facebook.
The problem was, Facebook was essentially running ads against the content of Murdoch's media. Murdoch reportedly asked Zuck to simply pay for the news articles that were in the Facebook feed - and Zuckerberg reportedly laughed him off.[0]
So now, we have a massive public trial, conducted by all the public figures most indebted to Rupert Murdoch.
[0]:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/22/rupert-mu...