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I am not anti-Google and in fact use its services daily, but it is important to remember that it is a privately-held company with no obligation to serving the public interest.We should tread with caution when thinking of it as the be all and end all of access to information online.
Google is not the only way to find information online and not everyone uses Google.
But, most importantly, many people neither use Google nor know how to find information on the web, making the internet in general a source of only limited information for many.