The important question remains, who liked your essay? Who was able to link to that essay? There exists, and will probably always exist, a disparity of political power between those who can access the internet and those who can publish on the internet. As the controversy explains, your google ranking is not condusive to web user’s valuation of the information you publish. Thus, that information is not condusive to the wider discussion of that subject matter in which your essay recieved a higher google ranking.

I am not arguing that your work should not be read or that your work is necessarily good or bad. Your situation demonstrates that current indicies cannot gauge the importance of one piece of information over another. It goes to show that google is not a democratic mechanism because a minority of people - those who can publish on the internet - have many more votes than others. Nothing has fundamentally changed about google, but the disparity between viewers and publishers has risen sharply. I am not so sure that centralized systems like google are the answer to indexing the importance of information.