The lawsuit was over the use of lead paragraphs in the Google News aggregator, not the general search engine. Google is intentionally misinterpreting the verdict of the lawsuit in order to punish those who might challenge the company. Remember that Google also defied the court order to publish the result of the lawsuit on its Belgian sites, so it's obviously not afraid to thumb its nose at the courts.

"Nice online newspaper you've got there. Hate to see something happen to it."