jastra - 9:33 pm on Jan 26, 2008 (gmt 0)

Webwork,

You just wrote the definitive summary of issue. And you simultaneously put the knee jerk Google apologists in perspective.

Google's been casually sauntering away from houses they'd just set alight for some time now. It's the holier-than-thou public persona that they try to perpetuate that's galling.

They're beholden to stockholders, like any business. The days of mythical Do No Evil are long gone.