Though not power so much as ability to cause gales (or at least a single gale) of laughter. Some anonymous doof posted to Google Question a request for sleazy information on Princeton economics professor/NY Times columnist Paul Krugman. So, in Your Questions Answered, Krugman decided to pick up the $100 offered himself.
More seriously, Google is facing a lawsuit from a sleazy company called SearchKing over changes to SearchKing’s PageRank. Which is what SearchKing sells, so bad for them. LawMeme analyzes as Google replies to SearchKing’s filings.
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