It was set up to counteract a projected shortfall in pensions in the future - it was known as the National Pensions Reserve Fund until it was raided to pay for the banking crisis during the economic crash post 2008.

In short it is a function of government as they are giving very generous pensions to public servants and hoping that future taxation will pay for it is stupid - make current taxation pay and at least our children will not be left with a huge bill

I think that it is more a matter of principal than the publicity
He sued the News of the World who had to retract the Nazi claim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosley_v_News_Group_Newspapers_Limited#The_Nazi_allegation
I even believe that they had to retract the orgy claim! (can't find the reference)

But then went after them and exposed the phone hacking scandal which brought the newspaper down,
This is still ongoing and more News Corp / Rupert Murdoch investigations are continuing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mosley#European_privacy_laws

While I am not sure that going after Google will do anything, he has to have some way of being disassociated with "Nazi Orgies" when they were not Nazi nor orgies!!

I recently installed MS Office 2010 on my fathers laptop

It gave me the choice of using ODF as the default format for saved files!!!
(I didn't use it because he needs to send files to others who may have old versions of Word for his business)

I am an importer in Ireland and my shipping invoices now have a "Gulf of Aden Surcharge" on them, so I pass this on to my customers and so on so the good news is that we ALL pay of the pirates.