Danny Sullivan, a search industry expert and blogger for Search Engine Land, concurs with Cutts: There's nothing nefarious about Google's protecting its user-focused emphasis on relevant results, he says.

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All day he raises the example of Brookhaven, a nuclear lab leaking radioactive waste, as evidence of Big Business's nefarious influence.

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It's not a nefarious plot against America, rather the resultant of global prosperity.

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Lifting laundry bags is nefarious enough, but it's hardly world-class in the hotel-theft department.

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The other 85% of Kadima's 70, 000 members are people who were brought into the party by those nefarious standard-bearers of Israeli politics of recent years: the vote contractors.

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Although Beinisch claimed last week that some media institutions are active participants in the politicians' supposedly nefarious propaganda war against the Supreme Court, the fact of the matter is that Israel's mainstream media is the legal fraternity's most fervent defender.

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If the law passed, we were warned, Israel's democracy would be rent asunder as judicial nominees would be forced to toe the line of nefarious political forces yanking at their newly nailed on strings.

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In the U.S., uncertainty over the near-term, with a looming fiscal cliff and the potentially nefarious effect of a new debt ceiling debate still to come, have kept investors on edge.

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