Google squares off with its Capitol Hill critics.

The Search Party: Google’s ambitions had not gone unnoticed by its competitors. What Google had created—an ingenious tool for searching the Internet—had evolved into something almost unimaginably far-reaching. The company’s mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Making information “universally accessible,” though, is an ambitious goal that often clashes with those whose business is to own and distribute it.