>edit: would any downvoters care to explain how google being able to arbitrarily dictate web content is a power they should have? Because that's literally how

>edit: would any downvoters care to explain how google being able to arbitrarily dictate web content is a power they should have? Because that's literally how search engines work. They look at hundreds of metrics to try to return the most useful result. If you want a metric-free search engine, you might as well ctrl+f for a list of the world's domains, because anything else will have subjectivity involved.