Wow! That's quite an article, cbp. Look especially at Accusation 5: "Google hires spooks", and Accusation 7: "Google's cache copy is illegal".
I'm surprised that the Kennedys, Lee Harvey Oswald, and any one of a dozen others including everyone associated with the Roswell incident or crop circles weren't dragged into the indictment in #5 and #7 is almost too silly to even comment on.
I encourage you to go read the article and make up your own minds about it.
What struck me while reading the article, apart from how plain silly many of these "accusations" are, is that the criticisms Brandt reserves for Google could as easily and perhaps more accurately have been aimed at Alexa, Yahoo, DMOZ, and any number of other similar services - so why Google? Because Google is currently the biggest and most successful and Brandt says he thinks Google should be government regulated, in spite of his stated fear that one of the problems with Google is its susceptibility to government privacy violations.
Personally, I'm inclined to be a lot more worried about Daniel Brandt than I am about Google...
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