"We assess the importance of every web page using more than 200 signals and a variety of techniques, including our patented PageRank™ algorithm, which analyzes which sites have been “voted” to be the best sources of information by other pages across the web. "
If they are deciding what is good content or not, that doesn't sound too much "Democratic" to me. They have the right to index whatever they want, but by doing that I have to return to the early ages of the web when we had to consolidate information from different search engines.
Exactly, not much info, which is subpar of the quality that Google wants to index.