Google CEO, Eric E. Schmidt, is such a political animal that he is more interested in joining the Obama team then in working to grow Google. Most likely the political leanings of the Google staff as a whole is more like that of it’s CEO then that of a random slice taken from the general population. To think that this bias doesn’t play a role in the split second decisions that human editors at Google are faced with all day every day is to be naive.

A recent article in The Register out of the UK, Google cranks up the Consensus Engine,  included this commentary “Make no mistake, Google is moving into new territory: not only making arbitrary, editorial choices – really no different to Fox News, say, or any other media organization. It’s now in the business of validating and manufacturing consent: not only reporting what people say, but how you should think.” As the article states this is no small thing. A Google that filters the internet with bias of any kind is a Google that has no business being used for search.