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Like the Wraith of Stargate Atlantis (I just revealed my nerdishly huge appetite for good sci-fi), Google are showing themselves more and more to be sucking the life out of the Internet, attacking those who would make an honest living out of it, despite many of those sites having great content (and on that topic, here’s some irony).

All the while, the splogs abound, supported by income from Google AdSense, while the company singles out legitimate AdSense publishers and cancels their account without paying out the balance for no real known reason.

It seems to me that Cory Doctorow was right on the money when he wrote his short story, Scroogle. Maybe in the near future the frightening events he describes will come to pass.

Also scary is that the need for a service with the same name as Doctorow’s story exists in order to protect your privacy; since Google keeps your search data for two years, one man created a site that accesses Google through his own servers to keep your search terms anonymous.

I recently posted an opinion article here on Google’s attitude towards site ranking which flies in the face of the very nature of the Internet and the values it was founded upon as an open forum free of nearly unbreakable entry barriers; something quite unheard of in the rest of our materialistic and corporacratic world.

Well, I’m sorry, but I’m just sick of Google’s monopoly on the Internet and its privacy-endangering habits. I am sick of Google sucking the life out of the Internet, especially after the news of the past few weeks regarding paid text links and the trouble it has caused for reputable services for honest website owners like Text Link Ads and PayPerPost.

Google is a company that was started in a garage, and that the citizens of the Internet once loved. It used to deserve that love, and it made the Internet a whole lot more accessible for everyone.

What happened to the “Do No Evil” policy that once set it apart from thousands of other corporations that really don’t care if their dollars came to them through evil or good?

I wish good luck to anyone who is actively trying to break Google’s monopoly, such as the RealRank endeavor.