Google is a for profit corporation, not a college campus, news at 11.
E.g. noone is batting an eye when Apple chooses cherry-picked based datapoints for their performance comparisons or when Stanfords research department spins a paper to get them more funding.
For Google we keep getting this streams of "Google is acting like any other corporation, OH GODS". It's... wierd.
But then nobody should call whatever they are publishing "paper". Because if you "research" with a PR-directive, it is literally not science. If they want to "research" like a corporation, kick them out of Google Scholar and scientific discourse, right now, please.