Everything's "based on merit" until merit doesn't line up with the company's interests anymore. I use google translate and maps and images all the time, so the

Everything's "based on merit" until merit doesn't line up with the company's interests anymore. I use google translate and maps and images all the time, so them showing up at the top of the results page isn't inconvenient for me, but sometimes when I use them I get results that are actively bad and I have to go seek out other services. There are probably many cases where I get bad results and am not informed enough to recognize that the results were bad!