That's an easy question to answer, I was trawling through the dusty attics of idlewords.com (feel free to go read A Morning in Iceland http://idlewords.com/2003/11/a_morning_in_iceland.htm), I found it amusingly prescient.

It's at the forefront of people's minds at the moment so it is written and posted about frequently and people are interesed in historical articles as a baseline.

It's good that we're thinking like this. It's simply critical thinking.

Seems a little suspicious that this is the very first comment from a new account.

>For instance I wonder how OP stumbled about the link.

The same way I stumble across other pro-Google or anti-Google links.

Regardless it is completely irrelevant.

Thanks to Google these links and many others are kept down under the rug.

This HN page is currently #3 for the search query "Don't Trust Google". So I'm going to call BS right there.

Are they? On what do you base that claim?