And we never imagine what the internet would be like without Google. You think spam is bad now? It's possible that in a world without Google web search just w

And we never imagine what the internet would be like without Google. You think spam is bad now? It's possible that in a world without Google web search just wouldn't work because Bing or Yahoo (or altavista, cuil, powerset, or whoever) just couldn't deal with the spam. Certainly Google isn't perfect, but they do a pretty good job combating web spam that is explicitly targeted at them.