Kimber Matherne’s thriving food blog attracts millions of visitors each month looking for last-minute dinner ideas.
But the mother of three says decisions at Google, more than 3,000 miles from her home in the Florida panhandle, threaten her business. About 40 percent of visits to his blog, Easy family recipesthrough the search engine, which has served as the clearinghouse of the Internet for more than two decades, referring users to hundreds of millions of websites every day.