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Google Responds to SearchKing's Lawsuit

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the legal-parlance dept.

The Importance of writes "Back in October, SearchKing sued Google for reducing SearchKing's pagerank, as previously reported. Now, Google has filed a reply and a motion to dismiss. LawMeme has both documents as well as analysis."

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  1. If I search for "SuperDuG" on google .. by SuperDuG · · Score: 5, Funny
    I come up first ... does that make me the end-all-be-all best superdug because google says so?

    This is the same as sueing the "A" group in highschool for not deeming you cool and because of that your self esteem suffered and you became a computer science major.

    --
    Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
  2. Honestly... by Sayten241 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who goes to a search engine to search for other search engines anyway? That's like me training a dog to find other dogs that are trained to find dogs. I don't see how search king could possibly even claim to have a case here.

  3. SearchKing ... PlowKing ... RainKing ... by B3ryllium · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can I start up "Slashdot King"?

  4. Darn it. by m_chan · · Score: 5, Funny
    I was rather excited when I read, on page 3:
    II. Table of Authorities
    United States Statutes and Other Authority

    Hustler Magazine v. Falwell
    485 U.S. 46, 53 (1988)

    Sweet! Larry Flynt will set me straight. So happily did I turn on to page 10, for those playing along at home.

    and it read:
    even when a speaker is motivated by hatred or ill will his expression [is] protected by the First Amendment
    which is totally not what I was looking for. I even checked under the staples.
  5. Best quote ever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The King does have a point: when your "business" consists of shoplifting and the corner store installs a security camera, you're going to go out of business quickly enough that an injunction is your only hope.

  6. Re:If I were Google by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    " Google is a private company and has the right to exclude anyone they choose."

    "Objection, your honor."

    "On what grounds?"

    "It's devastating to my case!"

    (okay, the reference is a little obscure. Hint: Jim Carrey.)

  7. Legal Defense Fund? by RajivSLK · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait a minute aren't *they* suing Google?

    It should be a "Legal Attack Fund".

    We should sue them for false representation!

  8. Yet another reason why Google is the best... by sgtsanity · · Score: 5, Funny
    They wittily insult the plantiff in their legal documents:
    The PageRank values assigned by Google are not susceptible to being proved true or false by objective evidence. How could SearchKing ever "prove" that its ranking should "truly" be a 4 or a 6 or a 8? Certainly, Search King is not suggesting that each one of the billions of web pages ranked by Google are subject to another "truer" evaluation? If it believes so, it is certainly free to develop its own search services using the criteria it deems most appropriate.
    SearchKing = Owned
  9. Re:If I were Google by plague3106 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or the US?

  10. Google and $cientology by boots@work · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you want to know how the folks at Google feel about Scientology, try a Google search for "goatse". No, really! Look at the suggested category...

    Nice hack :-)