Google are increasingly pushing their products and services to pretty much everyone and Google properties like books, knols and news are starting to dominate the search results. It doesn’t have to be that way – you can actually get:
A nifty application that filters out Google’s own results. Find it here and enjoy search again 
Popularity: 1% [?]
The Google monopoly backlash is under way … maybe.
It’s a shame really that they’re losing their “do no evil” image – they’re only doing what any company has to do by growing and expanding otherwise someone else will do it and knock them off their perch … but then probably the majority of people don’t care anyway.