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I think deletion or suppression of sites by search engines is fine if there are clear rules that are fairly applied to everybody. The big problem is "editorial" deletion of sites or imposition of "site unique bias" against smaller sites for undisclosed reasons, especially if this done in an obviously unfair manner. Once you start editorial deletion or suppression, where do you stop? In this case small business directories like Kinderstart are suppressed but grossly abusive directories like AOL Open Directory or Alexa are not.
An article at: http://www.searchenginehonesty.com/net_neutrality.html discusses this problem and compares net neutrality (arbitrary suppression of access to information by ISPs) to "search neutrality" (arbitrary suppression of access to information by search engines.)
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