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Tom, I think you may have misunderstood what "Slate" was saying. I suspect that he wasn't searching for that particular site but pointing out that the most common meaning of "apple" appears after 50 other pages.

However, I agree that to criticise Google for it seems unfair. He sounds like a bit of a luddite in some ways.

It seems a bit silly to criticise technology for having a focus on technology. I can see his point, but it's an argument that I would think would be easily shot down as especially as it is used to criticise Google.

Google only reports on what's out there. If apple growers, producers, sellers, lovers etc don't have a dominant presence on the web, it's not Google's fault.