[dragonwriter]

> Google harms me in some way. I sue them. They throw an army of lawyers at the case. It takes years. Google wins, case dismissed. I should be on the hook for their legal fees?

That's a separate issue from whether the loser pays: even with automatic loser pays (or in the situations where the loser pays even in the American system) limitations to “reasonable” costs (or actual specific legislated caps) are possible.