On June 26, 2006 Jeffery Toback created news by dropping his lawsuit against Google. This news spread like a wildfire over the internet making it to headlines almost everywhere.

Earlier, In May 2006, Jeffery Toback, who is a democratic representative in New york’s Nassau County Legislature; charged Google filing that Google has been allowing child pornography and “other obscene content” operators to advertise their sites through sponsored links. According to him the search engine was not serious enough to block child pornography from reaching children and hence, was making these objectionable images an integral part of its business model.

Later now, on june 21, 2006, his attorney filed court documents saying he would discontinue the legal challenge.
(source: news.com.com)

It is really astonishing to note that how come, a person firing Google on such a strong grounds, suddenly takes a step back, and that too a  person who is a democratic personality. What I personally think, he may have gone a step back to protect his personal repute in the society. But, this is not for the first time that somebody had charged Google and then taken a step back. Earlier, Mark Roberts, owner of two e-commerce websites, filed a complaint against Google for mishandling of those site rankings. After receiving a call from Google’s counsel threatening to file anti-slapp motion against Roberts if he proceeded, Robert voluntarily dismissed  the complaint without prejudice. (source: blog.ericgoldman.org)

What the question is that don’t these people prepare themselves beforehand to stand against the big giant???

If  the answer to this is NO, then We must say that this is really irresponsible on their part. Although, it is not possible.

The next possibility is that the answer is YES, then why do they step back? Do these people really get threatened by the Google monsters? Why are these people afraid of Google?

In this way we are falling prey to the Google biased approach, in which they want us to see the world through Google colored glasses.

But, besides this one question creeps into my mind as whether do these parties quit by themselves or they are forced to quit under pressure from the powerfuls?

The situation gets worse when one finds that in lieu of the free information (that may be outdated) google gets an opportunity to fire advertisements on us from every possible avenue. The beneficiaries being the – Google, its advertisers and its affiliates, but the user is at a total loss, which is contradictory to the Google’s commitment to serve the end users.

Can anybody ask google as to why do they befool the users? Why it tries to suppress the voices raised against its malpractices? Why do google wants to decide what is beneficial for the users and what is not? Internet is not Google’s legacy.