I always head to Wikipedia first, but Wikipedia does not always have the complete story. Wikipedia has nothing on FairSearch, and the evidence is pretty solid t

I always head to Wikipedia first, but Wikipedia does not always have the complete story. Wikipedia has nothing on FairSearch, and the evidence is pretty solid that Microsoft is behind this group. Nor did it say anything about Florian Mueller being on the dole from Oracle or Microsoft until recently (check the Wikipedia history of his page) when he admitted even, even when we knew for years that this was in fact the case given the sheer volume of articles he writes attacking only Microsoft and Oracle's competitors. Consumer Watchdog isn't just critical of Google, they are rabidly so to a deranged order. They've got an entire site, http://insidegoogle.com/ http://insidegoogle.com/ dedicated to nothing but 100% Google attacks. This is the smoking gun modus operandi of astroturf. Does other consumer groups, like Consumers Union/Reports, or Center for Science In the Public Interest maintain sites exclusively dedicated to attacking a single company? They claim their issue is privacy, but if you look on their sight, they attack Google pretty much on everything, for example, they side against consumers and with publishers on Google Books. Whatever other projects they've got going, it smells fishy. It smells like astroturf.