...It amazes me how people are shocked at this news, tbh.

INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’
2015..
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e

The disbelief in that a lying organization would somehow suddenly act in a moral way?
...it beggars belief!