Is Google devaluing content? Tom asks

Tom Foremski is reporting on how Google Base aims to devalue content by valuing machine generated content. Tom writes

GOOG is devaluing the value of content by insisting the only value is in aggregation. People dump content or free into GOOGbase, but GOOG monetizes the index.
That's like saying the value of a book is in its index, not the content it points to.

Where is the "not-evil" Google we used to know?

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