I try not to be paranoid but i sympathize with WND. Google is still the main referrer of traffic to my blog, but based on the flurry of visits over the years from Mountain View, both "googlebot" and "google" proper, one cannot escape the feeling they "manage" traffic a bit.
Google today was hushing up the new dispute over President Obama's strange Social Security number by diverting searches for news reports on the issue to unrelated stories about Elena Kagan, oil, Tampa and the Federal Reserve.
