The question of trusting Google's search results go far beyond it obfuscating ads in the results pages. Google's executives exert absolute granular control over

The question of trusting Google's search results go far beyond it obfuscating ads in the results pages. Google's executives exert absolute granular control over what results end up at the top. Research shows that users are most likely to click only the top few results, meaning the this control has a massive influence on public awareness. What's more, Google has been shown to be ideologically driven when ranking its results. Including, for instance, down-ranking news sites with left-leaning or socialist views such as the World Socialist Website, Common Dreams, Democracy Now and others as part of a concerted scheme with other information controllers like Facebook to marginalize ideological viewpoints counter to their preferences. One can only speculate how much "meta-googling" (googling google to find out what it's up to) is rigged and cherrypicked.