Google is a publisher?

So I can sue them if, for example, I read about how to do something dangerous and hurt myself? Or libel?

Interesting.

Google does a lot of things in a lot of different contexts. It's not always acting as a publisher but here I think it is, and it has claimed to be one in the past.

In 2012, Eugene Volokh argued on behalf of Google that it was indeed a publisher:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/business/media/eugene-vol...