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CPA Googles For His Name, Sues Google For Libel

Posted by timothy on from the sue-you-sue-anyone dept.

fbform writes "Mark Maughan, an accountant, searched Google for his name on March 25 2003 and found some 'alarming, false, misleading and injurious' information about himself and his firm. Therefore, he is now suing Google, Yahoo (which used Google as its search engine at the time), AOL (for using Google to enhance its search results) and Time Warner (because they're the same company as AOL) for libel. Specifically, his lawyer John Girardi believes that Google's PageRank algorithm takes known good information and twists its context when displaying search results."

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  1. Where is it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought SuSE 9.1 was out? It doesn't seem to be.

    I'm seeking to upgrade my SuSE 9.0 host to 9.1, so that I might enjoy KDE 3.2.1 and the 2.6 kernel. But at ftp.suse.com, ftp.suse.de, and ftp.novell.com, only 9.0 is available!

    WTF? SuSE is great - KDE is clearly the direction Linux must go if it ever hopes to win the desktop, and SuSE seems to be the only major Linux distro that realizes this, as well as the only one that hasn't abandoned us desktop users - but where is 9.1?

    Someone help.

  2. Re:This begs the question... by dameron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Moreso it begs the question of why you posted anonymously? The usage of this phrase has changed. Deal with it. We can't all live in the 20th century...

  3. What does this mean? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You know, your anal retentive obsession about "begs the question" really begs the question, do you really understand basic English? This is the question that I am begging.
    Fuck off.
    1. Re:What does this mean? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


      You know, your anal retentive obsession about "begs the question" really begs the question, do you really understand basic English? This is the question that I am begging.

      Fuck off.

      Oooh, David Mertz does not like to be corrected, he only like to correct others (' writing style)
    2. Re:What does this mean? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Sorry, I thought I was replying to that "Lulu" guy. Isn't "Lulu" a girl's nickname? Why would a guy call himself that?

  4. Wait till he finds out.... by gbrayut · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    what else Google has to say about him...

    Here is the good stuff:
    michael moore is fat
    michael moore is an opportunistic
    michael moore is a grandstanding asshole
    michael moore is a hypocrite
    michael moore is less attractive
    michael moore is a disgusting piece of shit
    michael moore is a son of a bitch
    michael moore is dull dull dull
    michael moore is a big fat idiot? stupid white men
  5. oops.... by gbrayut · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oops... wrong name... Hope Michael Moore doesnt sue me...

  6. Divide and conquer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    From that interview, it sounds like DragonFly is going to have a different package management system in the future. Which means either the base is going to change,

    The BSD base isn't packaged. BSD types like having a source tree for their entire base system and being able to do "make buildworld" and "make installworld" to upgrade it. The package management system is entirely for third party applications. This is not Debian or Gentoo who have no code maintained by themselves other than installation and package management stuff. The BSDs maintain the kernel, the libc, other key libraries, and all the base utilities like ls, cp, mount, etc. And there's also a lot of "contrib" software in the base system -- some of it necessary to build the system (gcc and binutils), some of it just there out of tradition or regarded as "too useful to be moved to ports" (bind, sendmail). grmp

  7. Re:This begs the question... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe in your clique of uneducated idiots it means "and so that leads us to wonder" but outside your moms basement it means circular reasoning and that is all.

  8. Re:anyone speak english? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why would I look in an English dictionary for a Jewish word? Last time I checked, America wasn't Isr.. no wait.

  9. why don't nasa give the russians a chance? by Alex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The shuttle will be retired in 2010 and with no credible replacement on the horizon...why doesn't NASA give the Russians a chance?