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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. This is the page that he's suing over by CTalkobt · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Google returned the following page when I searched for his name and CPA: http://www.dca.ca.gov/cba/discipline/bi-bz.htm

    It turns out that it's a .gov address so if it's incorrect according to the article then somebody screwed up elsewhere, not google.

    Google does not attest to the validity of statements on each web site; they merely index them. I don't think the guy has a clue, or a case.

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  2. Only in America... by talonracer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow. Anyone else hear Don King proclaiming "Only in America!" when they read this?

  3. Tinfoil hat time... by advocate_one · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Microsoft announces it's own search engine...

    Google gets sued for libel based upon it's search results summarising...

    I wonder how much more FUD is going to be used against google???

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  4. america by iocc · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This can only happend in america.