Battleangel

What is the logic behind the recent Google Bashing? Google used to be, and still is in reality, a pretty nice company that does generally nice things and have had a part in advancing the internet considerably. Until they grew too big. Just like once happened to Microsoft.
One can’t help but wonder who is behind these rather selective yet extensive attacks on Google. And why we’re not seeing the same kind of uproar against government officials and other big businesses that are more likely to affect out lives, like the pharmaceutical industry. We do people look for conspiracies and malice in all the wrong places?

I can’t help but suspect that some people of the elite, in the US and other places, are not pleased with Google. Google deals in information in the way its algorithms decide what is news and hot and what is neither. And algorithms are in essence apolitical and ‘unpatriotic’. Like it or not, Google and such indexes DO have a lot of power.
It’s true that Google has conceded, over the years, to re-indexing or removing certain sites to please the elite. They did in fact censor search results in China to be more in line with the national firewall. And they did remove at least one neo-nazi site in Germany after pressure from the German government. The ‘Church’ of Scientology also used the DMCA to remove at least one site (Operation Clambake) from Google’s index. Then there was the story of JewWatch (which Google chose to disregard quite recently) and probably more stories like these that just hasn’t reached us. I doubt Google would be happy to divulge any such censorship to the public since it tarnishes the image of being a complete and unbiased search engine.

Recent events however indicate that Google have themselves grown to hold their own ground and not cave to every demand to pull undesirable links from their index. Or perhaps they didn’t do enough to accommodate the various elites of the world. Or maybe the elites did feel threatened anyway, having had to ‘correct’ Google so many times. As for other search engines, they’re all living in the shadow of Google, they represent more traditional business values (like Stern made a good quip about, the people of Google might have to do a math test and they also partake in some other unconventional practises), they conform to rules and they may or may not employ a more frivolous censorship policy.

I think that could be the explanation as to why ‘people’ are all of a sudden (over the course of the last year) turning against the company that they all used to love. Or rather, they are incited to think and act in such a manner. Mob rule rules. And I feel kind of guilty because I have too been bashing Google in a number of incidents over the last couple of years. I guess I see now that there are bigger fish to fry.