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Google’s stranglehold on information: the limits of free speech and the end of knowledge
It is time that we question the hypercentralisation of internet information through one single company, writes JULIAN VIGO
Google's offices in London

LAST September, Verge writer Cat Ferguson uncovered that Google had unwittingly allowed shady generators to manipulate its AdWords system.

The fallout from this article revealed that high-cost ads based on rehab keywords actually referred users to telephone hotlines that gave the impression of being independent information services. 

The reality is that these services were owned by treatment centre conglomerates. 

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