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I'm only half a Google fan, I think they do a lot wrong, but keeping their search algorithm a secret isn't one of those things.

If people really didn't trust Google, they'd go elsewhere.

There's an agenda at work here, very obviously.

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That's a bit of a strawman argument. There's a wide gap between the "totally trust" and "do not trust" groups. I would think most people would fit in that gap. The ones who do go elsewhere are in the "do not trust" group. I can't be sure, but I would think the "totally trust" and "do not trust" groups are minorities in Google's user-verse.

How is that a strawman argument? He is stating that he does not blindly follow google, nor does he criticise google at every turn. He is a sceptic. As you say most of us are. We use it because on balance we like it. If we saw any evidence to suggest that something is wrong, then we will not like it, thus do something about it.

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