Google wants a group of young Polish poets to give up their domain name, gmail.pl. They want it so bad they’re suing. Because, as you all know, poetry is a threat to multi-billion dollar internet companies.

Izabela Krawczyk of GMAiL — the “Grupa Mlodych Artystow i Literatow,” or Group of Young Artists and Writers — told AFP that Google had turned to the country’s IT and telecommunications tribunal to try to stop them using the Web site address www.gmail.pl.

Google charges that GMAiL has no rights to the name, which resembles the US firm’s internationally known email service www.gmail.com.

The service is enjoying snowballing global success, encouraging Google to try to snap up variants of the name which use national suffixes, such as .pl in Poland.

Besides turning to arbitrators and the courts to stop so-called cybersquatters from abusing their names on the Internet, companies sometimes pay big money to buy back such domain names.

Krawczyk, however, blasted the suggestion that the poets were looking for a fast buck.

And well she should. We all know that poets make the slowest bucks in the universe. Google… the evil… it’s creeping in…