...I bet you will see many more such posts from Danny.

I think he typically starts from the position of giving them the benefit of the doubt, but they have went so far out of bounds that he has smoked them pretty hard at least 3 or 4 times. The x things I hate about Google, the "mom rule" on the toolbar, this astroturfing incident ... and those are just off the top of my head.

Keep in mind that Danny has covered search for more than a decade & has saw things like "SEO is dead" styled stories from the very start. So he tends to start from a more reserved standpoint than many others, but when Google goes to far he is willing to give them a bravo delta.