Oh yeah there were no tabloids before Google, and all the news was completely unbiased too.
While this may be true, it falls flat once you consider that this has been done to many non-google organizations too.
You only get to understand what a massive role Google plays in the like/click/view generating ecosystem when you spend time in a modern digital publishing/advertising/marketing firm. It's like watching a huge cattle auction where peoples views/clicks etc are being traded 24*7.