internet - Destroying a corporate image

Our slower but more thoughtful colleagues of the weeklies (like here in Newsweek) get their act together and give their thoughts about the Google-China disaster that keeps on hitting the headlines.
Maybe I'm also in cyberspace terms a bit old-fashioned, but I do think that search engines should not be in the business of censoring. Google has done their image a great disservice, hurt the goodwill search engines had and brought us much closer to a situation where we have to fear them as corporate giants who present us search results that match their agenda.
It brings also closer the nightmare painted in EPIC 2014, where search engines and companies manipulate information up to a very personal level. It might not be that close, but every step in this wrong direction is one step too much.