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Originally Posted by rhadin
Google acts as a gatekeeper via its ranking system, as do all the search engines. It is just a different type of gatekeeping. Google tells us that the most relevant hits are likely to be in the first page or 2 of returns. How is that not gatekeeping?
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Google ranks sites by the number of people who link to them (ie recommend them). So it is the people recommending them that ultimately determines the order, not Google.