What is scary about this level of censorship is that it shows just how much power these big corporations have over what people can find on the Internet. "If I can't find it on Google, it doesn't exist" is what the majority of users think, and they're exploiting that sentiment.

I think there is no better time than now for the development of new search engine technologies that could be resistant to censorship by being widely distributed, much like how protocols such as BitTorrent revolutionised file sharing.

Oddly enough, if I do the query "site:chillingeffects.org" with Google right now, I get the same single result as shown in the article, but also a "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 1 already displayed." message, and if I click that link there, I see "About 1,720,000 results" (of which a very small number are actually accessible), some of them being notices.