The flip-side of relying on smaller companies, of course, is they may not have the cash available to challenge specious searches that a company like Google does

The flip-side of relying on smaller companies, of course, is they may not have the cash available to challenge specious searches that a company like Google does -- assuming it wants to challenge requests, of course. Then again, from what we know about the FISC it's hard to say whether legal challenges make much difference.