There's been a lot of high-profile anti-Googlism coming out of the Newspaper Association of America's annual convention and elsewhere lately. For ex: Wall Street Journal jefe :

There is no doubt that certain websites are best described as parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internet....It's certainly true that readers have been socialised -- wrongly I believe -- that much content should be free. And there is no doubt that's in the interest of aggregators like Google who have profited from that mistaken perception. ...Google encourages promiscuity -- and shamelessly so -- and therefore a significant proportion of their users don't necessarily associate that content with the creator.

Translation: Google is helping thousands of lesser sites leech money out of publishers' pockets.

Henry Porter, an editorial writer for the United Kingdom's Observer, continues the slutty worm theme, calling Google "," "a parasite that creates nothing," and a "nightmarish 11-year-old." Please, Henry, tell us what you really think.

Dean Singleton, chair of the Associated Press, issued vaguely and declared: