The Low Moral Expectations of The Internet Inudstry

And if you're thinking of changing from Google due to their fanciful artwork you can hardly change to Yahoo with a clean conscience. When it comes to the moral failings of search engines Yahoo has raised the bar...

SAN FRANCISCO: A Chinese political prisoner and his wife have sued Yahoo in a U.S. court, accusing the company of abetting acts of torture by helping Chinese authorities identify political dissidents who were later beaten and imprisoned.
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Wang Xiaoning, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence in China, according to the lawsuit; his wife, Yu Ling; and other unidentified plaintiffs seek damages and an injunction barring Yahoo from identifying dissidents to Chinese authorities.
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When government officials present the company with a request for information about a Yahoo user, he said, "Yahoo China will not know whether the demand for information is for a legitimate criminal investigation or is going to be used to prosecute political dissidents."

Several U.S. Internet companies, including Cisco Systems, Google and Microsoft, have been criticized by some politicians and human rights groups, which accuse them of helping the government monitor and censor the Internet in China.

All in all a nasty little business that the founders of these respective search engines probably never considered when they started their enterprises.