I think what the article misses with this particular search is that Google's function most of the time is to get you pages that contain the phrase, and not nece

I think what the article misses with this particular search is that Google's function most of the time is to get you pages that contain the phrase, and not necessarily the answer to the question. In some cases it does "feature" an answer (e.g. 2+2, or What is the capital of Australia?) sometimes it doesn't. Similarly, if you ask "Is the Earth flat?" you will see some results from the flat Earth conspiracy theorists. One other aspect of this problem is that Google absolutely can and it does manipulate the results. At least a lot of work is done to eliminate spam, SEO abuse, or what Google thinks is spam and abuse. They are not a media outlet and are totally free to tweak their algorithms in any way they want or in any way that makes sense within their business model. So if they do deliberately lower StormFront's ranking, nobody can blame them for that.