Ohio’s now-departed attorney general failed to convince a state appeals court to revive his years-long attempt to regulate Google like a public utility, with a panel ruling that its search function doesn’t operate in a manner that allows for such oversight.
The idea that the search function can be defined under state law as a “common carrier"—a company that moves passengers or products for a fee and can be used by the public—doesn’t hold water, Ohio Court of Appeals, Fifth District Presiding Judge Andrew J. King said Monday.
King said the courts aren’t the place to address the issues former ...