It's estimated that global e-commerce sales will reach $963 billion dollars next year. At a growth rate of approximately 19% per year, 2014 should be the trillion dollar mark. With Google dominating 67% of the search market, this gives them enormous control over an almost trillion dollar industry.
Instead of focusing on creating great content that won't rank (Google is ranking blank pages now) and building links, people should focus their attention on contacting US members of Congress and the Senate. Google has clearly grown too big and has too much power over the e-commerce world. Google should indeed be broken up.
Google's acquisitions over the years has further emboldened their footprint in the e-commerce world. Besides search, Google is able to bring their other acquired businesses into the fold and give them preference in search and to cross-promote their own properties. This shuts potential competitors out of the market and reduces consumer choice.
With Google's recently changed privacy policies, it is clear that Google intends on profiling its users across all of their properties. Armed with behavioral analytics and a dominate footprint in e-commerce, Google represents a threat to consumers, businesses and the future of digital commerce now and in the years ahead.
Americans should write their representatives and seek a breakup of Google. This would be more productive use of our time then trying to analyze why garbage is now ranking on the first page of many Google search results.