And really, I shouldn't care, because he's just one guy, right? No. Because apparently, his personal blog must be like the Bible to some people. Heck, look at how high his posts are ranked on Techmeme!: http://www.techmeme.com/120110/p22#a120110p22 Why are his posts so highly ranked? I do not know. What I do know is that he wrote four--FOUR--blog posts bashing Google in one day. Seriously, what?

One of those four blog posts is Twitter complaining that Google is being anti-competitive by including Google+ into search results. And another is Google's response to Twitter's complaint. But MG Siegler phrases that in such a way that Google sounds like the villain, when clearly, Google is actually the good guy, or at least not the bad guy, because Twitter was the one who chose not to renew their Realtime search deal last year. I seriously cannot understand why this man's flawed thinking is displayed for all to see on the top page of Techmeme. But so what, right? Well, I just want to remind you that the same situation occurred last August, but Google in the position of Twitter and Microsoft in the position of Google. Google (like Twitter) complained about Microsoft's purchase of certain patents, and Microsoft (like Google) responded, saying that it offered Google to buy the patents together. Of course, it was obvious why Google couldn't buy the patents with Microsoft, because if they had bought the patents together, Google could not have used those patents to defend Android from Microsoft. Anyone could see that Google = good guy, Microsoft = bad guy. But nooo, MG Siegler's hatred of Google blinded himself to this obvious fact and he immediately leapt at the chance to bash Google. Just read his articles and his bias is very obvious.

Back to MG Siegler's four blog posts attacking "Search, plus Your World," he is not even right. Social is the future, and sooner or later Google was going to have to integrate Google+ into search, just as they have done with Gmail, Reader, aka any other Google service. It was only a matter of time. There was no alternative choice, other than to pray that technology won't evolve. Oh, and hope not to be crushed under the giant Facebook/Microsoft/Nokia triple alliance that's being built. Google is completely in their right to take its destiny into its own hands. Telling Google not to integrate Google+ into search would be like telling Apple not to use iOS to promote its Newsstand platform or its social iMessage messenger, or Microsoft not to use Windows to promote Bing. Oh wait. They totally are. (Oh, and did I mention that you can turn off the Google personalized results with one click? It's not even hidden under Settings, it's a huge toggle in the top right of every results page. Making a mountain out of a molehill. Classic sensationalism.)

Regarding the public dispute between Google and Microsoft in August 2011, that started with Google's David Drummond's post "When patents attack Android": that's when I first realized that MG Siegler really hated Google. Because if his brain hadn't been clouded by his hatred, he would have realized one very important thing: when one is actually losing a war, one don't make a public speech complaining of his/her problems. That is a very big no no. So you can be pretty sure that when a company as rich as Google starts whining on its official blog, there is a hidden motive. And there was. Less than two weeks later, Google announced that the acquisition of Motorola Mobility. And amazingly, no one questioned whether a $12.5 billion acquisition may actually be anti-competitive. No one bothered to ask themselves, "shouldn't we give this huge deal that involves $12.5 billion second thought?" No, no one did. On the contrary, people actually praised Google for the acquisition. All because two weeks prior, as part of its strategic plan, Google wrote a fake blog, and thanks to MG Siegler's hatred, gained widespread sympathy.

I used to think that I was alone in my annoyance at MG Siegler's bias, but I recently found out that I wasn't alone (Joshua Topolsky, my favorite writer at The Verge) and I just had to write this.