Absolutely no one said anything like that about Google. It was universally praised as being a better search engine than what came before it like Altavista

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dv_dt 10 hours ago | parent [-]

People absolutely worried about what would be done about loss of critical thinking as well as misinformation surfaced by search engine

	▲	JustExAWS 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I was around back then on Usenet (where discussions happened) and Altavista was already a thing. Where was this mass histeria being discussed? Why would they have a moral panic over Google because it was better than the search engines or the human curated catalogs like Yahoo?