Here is one of the worst articles that I have recently read about Google's business model.

The message is practically that Google gets rich because it "uses" other peoples information, while the truth is rather that Google organizes the information so that it becomes more accessible and useful for internet users. It's pretty obvious that the vast majority of people actually WANT to get ranked well by Google's search engine (be it as an advertiser or in the organic results) and not the other way around. For some, a good ranking is their major revenue driver...

However, it's especially curious that Mrs. Bogatin quotes the people from Microsoft to stress her argument. A company that runs a search engine with the same business model and that would die for Google's market share.

Mrs. Bogatin should not have hung out so much with the Microsoft folks at Stern school. It did not reflect well on her journalistic skills.