It's said that "Google pays Silicon Valley's legal bills." (And by that, it's meant that Google ends up in court a lot and often in groundbreaking, no-existing-precedent situations. As a result, there is a lot of case law that's already decided when some smaller company comes up behind wondering whether they can get away with such-and-such business model intellectual-property-wise. Google has already "paid the (legal) bills" required to get a more-or-less definative-ish answer on the question.)
It feels weird to me to see a headline like "Google wins such-and-such lawsuit" and be like "fuck yeah, good job Google". I guess it only feels weird because Google is a big evil company. But I guess I have to admit a not-small number of Google IP cases found in Google's favor have had a net positive effect. I guess I'm glad Perfect 10 v. Google (2007), in which a purveyor (or rather "perv-eyer", amirite?) of nude model photos sued Google for serving Perfect 10's images on the Google image results page, was found in Google's favor. And in Author's Guild v. Google (2013), Google's ability to provide to the public relatively significant snippets/previews of commercially-available books was protected by the courts as well. And while I'm at it, Google v. Oracle (2021) decided that Google was allowed to copy the Java standard library API (the interface bits, not the implementation so much) was protected fair use, which also seems like a net good thing.
And I'm not familiar with any Google cases that I'm glad or I wish Google had lost.