>>If Google had lost this case, it would have been a message to the public that this is not company to trust.
Rule of law says people get found guilty for things they did wrong, not because some people have a general desire to see them go down.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
