Google is steadily undermining the foundational principles of the web that made the platform so popular and allowed Google to do searching in the first place.

Google is steadily undermining the foundational principles of the web that made the platform so popular and allowed Google to do searching in the first place. The scary part is that they don't just offer an "alternative" technology like ActiveX, Flash, Applets, Silverlight and so on. They are influencing core web standards.