In a recent story about some of the world tech legislation going, PCWorld made this very point about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- the legislation signed into law in 1998 and now responsible for the incredible amount of copyright removal notices Google receives.

DMCA is often used against consumers, scientists, and legitimate competitors. For instance, in 2009 Google said that more than half of the takedown notices it had received under the DMCA were sent by businesses targeting competitors and that .

The Electronic Frontier Foundation also has some concerns with Google's new search algorithm.

"In particular, we worry about the false positives problem. For example, we've seen the government wrongly target sites that actually have a right to post the allegedly infringing material in question or otherwise legally display content. In short, without details on how Google's process works, we have no reason to believe they wont make similar, over-inclusive mistakes, dropping lawful, relevant speech lower in its search results without recourse for the speakers," the .

In addition, some people wonder how it's fair that some Google products won't run through the same filter that every other site has to.