"Is Google good or evil? In Silicon Valley, Google's moral code is a contentious issue. To its local boosters, Google can do no ill; but to critics on both the left and the right, Google epitomizes all the worst hubris, hypocrisy, and greed of the dot.com era."
Google leads in search but trails Yahoo in portal efforts
"Google has the name recognition and positive brand association needed to move aggressively into the portal space, but getting users to become loyalists and adopt a range of services from one provider is not an easy matter."
This boring headline is written for Google
"Journalists over the years have assumed they were writing their headlines and articles for two audiences — fickle readers and nitpicking editors. Today, there is a third important arbiter of their work: the software programs that scour the Web, analyzing and ranking online news articles on behalf of Internet search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.