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CPA Googles For His Name, Sues Google For Libel
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."
Think what you want but it's fact.
I pissed off everyone at SBC.
I cursed everyone with every foul word you could ever dream up, and I didn't talk to the flunkies, everytime I called I demanded to talk to a supervisor and I kept going up the ladder, pissing on shoes all the way up..
Yeah, it happened as I said it happened.
It's the reason the wire is dangling 6' from the ground on the pole in my backyard.
Google returned the following page when I searched for his name and CPA: http://www.dca.ca.gov/cba/discipline/bi-bz.htm
.gov address so if it's incorrect according to the article then somebody screwed up elsewhere, not google.
It turns out that it's a
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.
There's a gorilla from Manilla whose a fella that stinks of vanilla and has salmonella.
Wow. Anyone else hear Don King proclaiming "Only in America!" when they read this?
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???
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
This can only happend in america.