Google attracts millions of Web users every day. And, increasingly, it’s attracting the attention of plenty of lawyers, too.
As Google has grown into the world’s most popular search engine and, arguably, the most powerful Internet company, it has become entangled in scores of lawsuits touching on a wide range of legal questions, including copyright violation, trademark infringement and its method of ranking Web sites.
Any company that is large and successful is going to attract lawsuits, and Google’s deep pockets make it an especially big target. But as it rushes to create innovative new services, Google sometimes operates in a way that almost seems to invite legal scrutiny.
A group of authors and publishers is challenging the company’s right to scan books that are still under copyright. A small Web site in California is suing Google because it was removed from the company’s search results. And European news agencies have sued over Google’s use of their headlines and photos in Google News.
In these cases and others, potential legal problems seem to give the company little pause before it plunges into new ventures.
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as long as google keeps doing things the right way all i can say is “way to go!” there is too much bullshit out there with big giants controlling things because they want to feel powerful. it takes people like google to stand up to them and SMACK THEM IN THE FACE AND YELL “THATS ENOUGH OF YOUR SHIT YOU FUCKING BITCH!”
@ Signa…LOL! I can just see someone slapping Dan Glickman in the face and saying that! That post of yours is TOO FUNNY!
google is like an underdog pleasing customers and still doesnt get too illegal after all its a search engine