[aurumpotest]

And yet the images he used in his letter came from Shutterstock, rather than directly contacting a photographer and checking they're okay with their image being used to illustrate the point he's making.

Not saying this isn't a problem, just that he doesn't like it when it brings him less money, yet he uses it in other industries because it's convenient.

Having some way to filter out the big agglomerators would be nice - obviously you can use 'buy used car -autotrader', but the majority of users don't realise they can do that, even if they would like to.

[RichardDHH]

I am the author and there are no images, except a header at all in the original. They were added by TNOOZ.

Original is here: http://open-letter-to-google.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/open-let...

[bhartzer]

Images are good, but not needed to get his point across.