@thor
They are far worse than Microsoft. That's the weird thing. I've been using Bing for years now, and lately it's better and better when compared to Google Search. And I suspect this is mostly because Google has been getting worse.
Google, Twitter, Facebook, they all somehow see themselves as the shepherds of humanity, in a very dystopian Big Daddy fashion. But they're also very bad at it. I think your average state government might actually be more efficient at doing good in the world than these 3.