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How dare those people we (LA Timea) smear respond in their defense! and how can evil Google give them a forum!!
The L.A. Times reaction and attitude does not surprise me given their lack of ethics
and professionalism. What can you expect from a leftist publication? Arrogance, among many other nasty traits. Did you read about the New York Times illegaly
"editing" facts in Wikipedia to further their leftist agenda?

While the commenting feature may indeed be quite useful is it right for Google to use content generated and paid for by others any way it sees fit? It's one thing to generate search results (which ultimately send users to the individual sites and help Google build its search, advertising and portal business). It's quite another to use that content to create whole new products and services; services that rip off the content from others and move the center of gravity away from the content providers and undercut their content business.

While some may be excited to take down big media a notch and for the potential for new checks on the power of the media, there are broader implications and risks over the medium and long term. And questions of fairness and property and copyright as well.