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# Google Backlash: power without responsibility
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2006/07/google_backlash/
- Published: 2006-07-26T12:22:49.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T09:25:45.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth

More and more publishers of all stripes, it seems, are growing slightly uncomfortable with the growing power of [Google](http://www.google.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) over what gets read and what doesn’t. Two very different takes on the situation flowed into my [RSS reader](http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdID=NetNewsWire&ref=onemanandhisblog.com) this morning:

- Sean Bonner, of [Metroblogging](http://www.metroblogging.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) fame, questions the [arbitrary nature of Google News selections](http://www.seanbonner.com/blog/archives/002325.php?ref=onemanandhisblog.com).
- On the Travolution blog, Graham Donoghue [worries at the changes in the way Google rates landing pages](http://travolution.blogspot.com/2006/07/quality-rather-than-quantity-for.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)*\[disclosure: *[Travolution](http://www.travolution.co.uk/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)* is published by my employer, *[RBI](http://www.rbi.co.uk/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)*\]*

Google, for all its coolness and �don’t be evil� ethos, is becoming as secretive and closed as that cooler tech firm, [Apple](http://www.apple.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). However, Apple is pretty much just a minor player in the PC market, while Google rules the web.

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