>For one Google could influence the US presidential elections by skewing search results and making certain candidates look bad and others good. It'd be very ha

>For one Google could influence the US presidential elections by skewing search results and making certain candidates look bad and others good. It'd be very hard to prove, but yes. This could be extremely granularly controlled, too-- apply a few filters to weed out those who are likely to be able to detect subversion, then drill down to the demographic in the geographical area that needs to be energized to vote for a certain candidate.