Re: "Google settled the case out of court"
Anyway, they had nothing much to lose. It's just a couple of results removed from Google, and they were fighting the removal for principle more than anything.
The principle I doubt, that includes the assumption that Google has some sort of moral standpoint - they are fighting the inevitable flood of other requests they'd have to process otherwise, nothing else - which would cost, and add to complexity of their search system.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
