Agreed. This article commits the error that I see all too often online: a variation of Halon's razor where people will attribute something they don't like to d

Agreed. This article commits the error that I see all too often online: a variation of Halon's razor where people will attribute something they don't like to deliberate malice rather than seeking some other explanation. I would be surprised if google is actually "forgetting" older web pages. I would think that the pages were still in the index but newer sites are just favored over older results.