Is Google the “Government of the Internet?”

Google may be huge, but could it really become the “Government of the Internet?”

So says David. A. Milman, the chief executive of Rescuecom, in this article sent to me by LexisOne. His company was on the losing end of a trademark infringement lawsuit. His company repairs computers nationwide.

The article by Katie Hafner of the New York Times is a true eye-opener. The Internet produces a vast landscape of fertile ground for creative lawyers and novel ideas for lawsuits.

Read the article; see for yourself how creative thinkers have planted new seeds in virgin territory.

Happy Halloween.

We're Google. So Sue Us.

by Katie Hafner
The New York Times
Oct. 23, 2006

Google attracts millions of Web users every day. And, increasingly, it's attracting the attention of plenty of lawyers, too.

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'We've got a formidable legal team, but obviously it's nowhere near the unlimited resources of Google,'' said David A. Milman, the chief executive of Rescuecom, a nationwide computer repair company that sued Google on trademark infringement grounds similar to Geico's -- and quickly lost. The company said that it would appeal the decision.

''People say you can't fight the government,'' Mr. Milman said. ''Google, in this case, is very similar to the government. They're the government of the Internet.''