I kind of wonder if Google might get fed up and ditch their Italian office.  Recently I also read this attack piece in the Corriere della Sera, which is usually a reasonable paper:<p><a href="http://www.corriere.it/economia/10_gennaio_28/mucchetti_4de4be8a-0be8-11df-bc70-00144f02aabe.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.corriere.it/economia/10_gennaio_28/mucchetti_4de4...</a><p>Italian only, but basically the guy has it in for Google and the fact that they get paid in Ireland, in Europe, and thus avoid some of the fun and exciting Italian taxes and regulations, and thinks they should be subject to a number of inane rules that the local companies cooked up to split up the publishing market amongst themselves.