The demonstrations in Egypt have left Google in a bind, trying to maintain a careful diplomatic distance from one of its own young employees who has become a hero to protesting crowds in Cairo -- in an uprising that the company's own technology had a small role in advancing...Egypt's release this week of Wael Ghonim, the 30-year-old marketing manager for Google who has claimed credit for the Facebook page that helped start the uprising, highlights the predicament for high-profile companies whose workers' political activism can become a liability...[T]he company has been careful to distinguish between its employee's off-duty political activities and its own official stance...In an indirect way, Ghonim may help Google's reputation...