"Scroogled" is a political fable in the old sf tradition. Cory Doctorow tweaks Google, positing that it decides to work with American's Homeland Security. The short story draws on some recent search politics, namely Google's mephistophelean work in China, and adds digerati culture (Burning Man, San Francisco).
It's part of the subliterature of information. You can read it alongside copyright fiction, for example, as they work similar themes of ownership, self, and privacy.
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