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Trump Caught Google Off Guard With Bogus Announcement

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Trump Caught Google Off Guard With a Bogus Coronavirus Site Announcement

Google's not making a nationwide coronavirus testing website. And the company had no idea the president would say it was.

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3/13/20
President Donald Trump announced Friday that the US government’s coronavirus testing apparatus, which has lagged badly behind other developed nations, would soon get an assist from Google. The search and advertising giant will create a website, Trump said, that would help Americans figure out if they need a test for the virus, and if so where they can find one. The only problem: There is no nationwide site like the one Trump described. And Google had no idea the president was going to mention one. Google tells WIRED that company leadership was surprised that Trump announced anything about the initiative at the press conference. What he did say was also almost entirely wrong. There will be a coronavirus testing site, not from Google but from Alphabet sister company Verily. “We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing,” Google tweeted in a statement. “Verily is in the early stages of development, and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time.”

It's unclear whether senior Google or Alphabet leadership was aware of Trump's plans, but CEO Sundar Pichai apparently made no reference to it in a company-wide memo about its coronavirus efforts Thursday, which was first reported by CNBC. In the memo, Pichai told employees that "a planning effort is underway" for Verily to "aid in the COVID-19 testing effort in the US." The White House declined to comment on the record, but did not dispute that Google was unaware that Trump would announce the site Friday.
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Americans are dying and this ****er is lying right to our faces.

Related: Google says it's not publishing a national-scale coronavirus site anytime soon after Trump announcement
 
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