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Google not only favors themselves sometimes, they also favor companies that pay for the privilege. When you search for a product, it is typical that the first result is paid for. There are additional paid for for links to the right at the top. I normally ignore all that and skip down to something more neutral. The point it that this behavior on Google's part is hardly anything new, and savvy users should already have learned to skip past the earliest returned results.