Google, the media giant that makes its money by running the most successful Internet search engine on earth, has its fans, but I have never been one of them. True, as Google labored to meet an endless succession of new online needs and has gotten unimaginably rich in the process, I have at times watched with admiration and awe.

But I'm uneasy about Google's enormous size, and I disapprove of a business that brings in $24 billion a year for stocking its shelves with products it does nothing to create and pays almost nothing for.