Criticism of Google Criticism of Google includes alleged misuse and manipulation of search results, its use of others' intellectual property, concerns that its compilation of data may violate people's privacy , censorship of search results and content, and the energy consumption of its servers as well as concerns over traditional business issues such as antitrust , monopoly, and restraint of trade . Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search , cloud computing , and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, [ 1 ] and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Google's stated mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" ; [ 4 ] this mission, and the means used to accomplish it, have raised concerns among the company's critics. Much of the criticism pertains to issues that have not yet been addressed by cyber law . In 2007, a group of Austrian researchers observed a tendency to misuse the Google engine as a "reality interface". Ordinary users as well as journalists tend to rely on the first pages of Google search, assuming that everything not listed there is either not important or merely does not exist. The researchers say that "Google has become the main interface for our whole reality. To be precise: with the Google interface the user gets the impression that the search results imply a kind of totality. In