For Google [ … ] the question of information access and retrieval is fundamentally a technical problem of connecting some set of resources to a query within the system for advertising purposes.
I’ve quoted this on Twitter several times:
Hoffmann, A. L. (2016). Google books, libraries, and self-respect: Information justice beyond distributions. The Library Quarterly, 86(1), 76–92. https://doi.org/10.1086/684141 [hoffmann2016google]